Found 971 results for "Venice (italy), fiction"
by Wilkie Collins
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point.
by William Shakespeare
Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
by William Shakespeare
THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...
by William Shakespeare
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
by William Shakespeare
If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on-foot, you shall see ...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
by Charles Dickens
ON a fine Sunday morning in the Midsummer time and weather of eighteen hundred and forty-four, it was, my good friend, w...
by Thomas Mann
Gustav Aschenbach or von Aschenbach, as he had officially been known since his fiftieth birthday, set out alone from his...
by William Shakespeare
IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...
by William Beckford, Samuel Henley
VATHEK, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun al Raschid.
by Cornelia Funke
It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo.
by William Shakespeare
Valentine. Cease to perswade, my louing Protheus;