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The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Смерть Ивана Ильича
by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs
In the large building housing the Law Courts, during a recess in the Melvinsky proceedings, members of the court and the...
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
The Sea Fairies
by L. Frank Baum
"Nobody," said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale."
Der Proceß
by Franz Kafka
SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nur selten beherbergen Ahnenhallen den Sommer über ganz gewöhnliche Leute wie John und mich.
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...
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...
She
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
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...
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...