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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.
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.
Cinq semaines en ballon
Cinq semaines en ballon

by Jules Verne

THERE was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No....

1867 112 ed.
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations
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 ...

1589 225 ed.
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
The West Indies and the Spanish Main

by Anthony Trollope

I AM beginning to write this book on board the brig -, trading between Kingston, in Jamaica, and Cien Fuegos, on the sou...

1859 22 ed.
Columbus
Columbus

by Washington Irving

Columbus had anticipated repose from his toils on arriving at Hispaniola, but a new scene of trouble and anxiety opened ...

1800 115 ed.
Two years in the French West Indies
Two years in the French West Indies

by Lafcadio Hearn

WHEN you find yourself for the first time, upon some shadowed day, in the delightful West Indian city of St. Pierre,-sup...

1890 20 ed.