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by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
by Henry James
I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents
by Tennessee Williams
At the rise of the curtain someone is taking a shower in the bathroom, the door of which is half open.
by Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold
IN one of his speeches a year or two ago, that fine speaker and famous Liberal, Mr Bright, took occasion to have a fling...
by William Beckford, Samuel Henley
VATHEK, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun al Raschid.
by Steven Pinker, Garikoitz Knörr de Santiago
As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world.
by James Weldon Johnson
I KNOW THAT IN WRITING THE FOLLOWING PAGES I AM divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I...
by Winston Churchill
WITH few exceptions, the incidents recorded in these pages take place in one of the largest cities of the United States ...
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"There are some fields near Manchester, well known to the inhabitants as 'Green Heys Fields', through which runs a publi...
by Simon Singh
On the morning of Saturday, October 15, 1586, Queen Mary entered the crowded courtroom at Fotheringhay Castle.