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by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
by Hugh Lofting
ALL that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had known him- indeed...
by C. S. Lewis
THERE WAS A BOY CALLED EUSTACE CLARENCE Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
by C. S. Lewis
IT WAS A DULL AUTUMN DAY AND JILL Pole was crying behind the gym.
by Virginia Woolf
As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-ar...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...
by Jules Verne
Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
by Olaudah Equiano
PERMIT me with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design...
by Mark Twain
For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
by E. M. Forster
The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all.