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1. POEMS WRITTEN AT SCHOOL AND AT COLLEGE 1624-1632: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV Psalm CXXXVI On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough At a Vacation Exercise...

This volume contains the three trilogies of the amazing FORSYTE SAGA, by John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, mostly for these series of books...

A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles"

The harrowing true story that inspired the critically acclaimed film The son of a freed slave, Solomon Northup lived the first thirty years of his life as a free man in upstate New York. In the spring...

Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually...

Christmas is from the S book by Washington Irving the'Old Christmas' collection.

CONTENTS: Harrigan Riders of the Silences The Untamed The Night Horseman Gunman's Reckoning Ronicky Doone The Seventh Man Alcatraz Black Jack The Rangeland Avenger

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

The final volume of Remembrance of Things Past chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the...

In this fourth volume, Proust's novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an...

" Early Verse. " Puzzles from Wonderland. " Prologues to Plays. " Rhyme? And Reason? " College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel. " Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses. " Three...

This book contains all the novels of Jack London in the chronological order of their original publication The Son of the Wolf The God of his Fathers & Other Stories A Daughter of the Snows The Call...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" might be more aptly named "The Antichristian," for it is an unmitigated...

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the...

Here you will find the complete novels and stories of Rudyard Kipling in the chronological order of their original publication. - Plain Tales from the Hills (a collection of 40 short stories) - Soldiers...

A tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence of high stakes capitalism.

"Hard Times" is the 1854 novel by Charles Dickens that sought to highlight the social and economic divide that was growing between capitalistic mill owners and workers during the Victorian era of Great...

"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section...

Enjoy the Beauty of Shakespeare's Sonnets "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: " ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets While William Shakespeare might...

The Tempest is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted as the last play written solely by him, although some scholars have argued for an earlier dating....

In The Captive, Proust's narrator describes living in his mother's Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.

In the sixth volume of the series fitting seems that Proust's past actions conclude with a fair resolution. The captive is now the fugitive. Like in previous volumes, envy and distrusts eventually reveals...

Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California...

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Originally intended as a film scenario, this plot is an improbably adventure story that can't help but bring to mind the "Lost Ark" films of decades later

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail...

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began The Portrait of a Lady without...

The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his...

One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov—a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook...