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Heart of Darkness
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.

1899 552 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

1678 683 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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...

1876 2622 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

1915 954 ed.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Hace más de un siglo y medio que se publicó por vez primera 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sl...

1845 1032 ed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

1850 688 ed.
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.

1631 927 ed.
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears

by Verna Aardema

One morning a mosquito saw an iguana drinking at a waterhole.

1975 29 ed.
Benita, an African Romance
Benita, an African Romance

by H. Rider Haggard, H Rider Haggard

Beautiful, beautiful was that night!

1906 306 ed.
The African Queen
The African Queen

by C. S. Forester

ALTHOUGH she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sa...

1935 69 ed.
Victory
Victory

by Joseph Conrad

THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds*.

1915 146 ed.
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

by James Weldon Johnson

I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I...

1900 134 ed.
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

I was not sorry when my brother died.

1988 21 ed.
Ayesha
Ayesha

by H. Rider Haggard

VERILY and indeed it is the unexpected that happens!

1900 463 ed.
Magical realism in West African fiction
Magical realism in West African fiction

by Brenda Cooper

But there is also a third space of another kind, a theoretical position that might be called a 'reconstituted Marxism'; ...

1998 3 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Rudyard Kipling, Elliot

Looking back from this my seventieth year, it seems to me that every card in my working life has been dealt me in such a...

1899 55 ed.