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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

1734 649 ed.
Kidnapped
Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

1886 352 ed.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...

1883 724 ed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

1900 591 ed.
Twelve years a slave
Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

1853 1029 ed.
Die Traumdeutung
Die Traumdeutung

by Sigmund Freud

In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret ...

1899 141 ed.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

1817 266 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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...

1865 3546 ed.
Salomé
Salomé

by Oscar Wilde

SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.

1893 174 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.
Walden
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 ...

1854 1138 ed.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

1791 679 ed.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Les deux hommes surgirent de nulle part, à quelques mètres l’un de l’autre, sur le chemin étroit éclairé par la lune. Pe...

2007 144 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

Il était près de minuit et le Premier Ministre, assis seul dans son bureau, lisait un long rapport dont les mots lui tra...

2005 177 ed.
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

1883 431 ed.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...

1875 373 ed.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...

1800 977 ed.
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.
Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

1880 312 ed.