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Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...
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...
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...
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...
Anne of the Island
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...
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...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
ALL TRUE HISTORIES CONTAIN instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in...
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
by C. S. Forester, C. S. Forrester
REAR ADMIRAL LORD HORNBLOWER, for all his proud appointment as commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in ...
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies i...
by Bryan Edwards, Arthur Broughton
From slavery to freedom
by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.
By the end of the twentieth century, it became commonplace for African Americans to speak and write sensitively of the l...
20 Years at Hull House
by Jane Addams
On the theory that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked b...