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The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
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...
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...
by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching
It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ...
