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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.
The game of life and how to play it
by Florence Scovel Shinn
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
LEONATO: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina.
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
1.1 Antonio, a Venetian merchant, has invested all his wealth in trading expeditions.
Poetics
by Aristotle
Aristotle was much admired in the ancient world for the elegance and clarity of his style.
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AMONG the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
When Samuel Pepys saw A Midsummer Night's Dream in September 1662, he remarked that he had never seen it before - 'nor s...
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with li...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
THE Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar...
