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All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

1734 711 ed.
A Modern Utopia
A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

1900 102 ed.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

563 ed.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

1896 295 ed.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

457 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

1800 2059 ed.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...

1822 2209 ed.
Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]
Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

1800 255 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

1843 3198 ed.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and common...

1922 644 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

1859 465 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

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...

1623 256 ed.
King Henry V
King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

1600 631 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

1600 1505 ed.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

1734 949 ed.