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This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack" is a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. The original German...

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry" (German: "Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich", literally "The Frog King; or, The...

The novel Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel is set somewhere in the north of England, during the reign of George III (1760–1820), and goes through five distinct stages:...

The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound...

MY DEAREST BARBARA ALEXIEVNA,—How happy I was last night—how immeasurably, how impossibly happy! That was because for once in your life you had relented so far as to obey my wishes. At about eight o'clock...

The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play of William Shakespeare's authorship, a comedy written in the mid-1590s. The story begins with the Duke Theseus, who is preparing to marry Hippolyta. Before marriage,...

"In the land of the Upmeads, King Peter's sons thirst for adventure and the King agrees that all except Ralph, the youngest, may go forth. But Ralph secretly makes his way to Wulstead, and here learns...

When wanting isn’t enough…?? She wasn’t his to touch…he wasn’t hers to love…?? Cara North made the mistake of falling in love once and it cost her everything. Dancing at Club Prestige, her dreams are...

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) est un roman de science-fiction classique de l'écrivain français Jules Verne, publié en 1870. Il s'agit du capitaine Nemo et de son...

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered...

"The Perpetual Curate" is a novel written by Margaret Oliphant and published in 1864. Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant....

"A wonderful story... As a child, I strongly identified with Jo because she is a writer." —Jacqueline Wilson "The American female myth." —Madelon Bedell "It is an essential American novel, perhaps the...

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is...

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that name in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle...

A short memoir of Calamity Jane. The Autobiography of Calamity Jane also Martha Canary. Always on the move across the northern plains, Calamity Jane was more camp follower than a scout. A mother of two,...

"A Winter amid the Ice" (French: Un hivernage dans les glaces) is an 1855 short adventure story by Jules Verne. When his son Louis and members of the crew of the ship Jeune-Hardie, do not return from...

"I am inclined to think—" said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic...

“Who is this Mornay?” Captain Cornbury paused to kindle his tobago. “Mornay is of the Embassy of France, at any game of chance the luckiest blade in the world and a Damon for success with the petticoats,...

Little Good Boy had just finished eating the last of five rice cakes called "dango," that had been strung on a skewer of bamboo and dipped in soy sauce, when he said to his little sister, called Chrysanthemum:...

In the year 1680 there stood an old temple on a wild pine-clad mountain near the village of Kisaichi, in the Province of Inaba. The temple was far up in a rocky ravine. So high and thick were the trees,...

Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1922 with the English title of Ulysses. Its title comes from the character of the Latin version of Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus in Greek originally...

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic...

1886 novel by Andre Laurie and Jules Gabriel Verne. Verne was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre and, among others, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction."

The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend,...

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736]- June 8, 1809) was an American and English political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential...

Here is one of those "forgotten" works. Ticket No. "9672" is a fascinating tale of two women who live in a Norway Inn. Dame Hansen is a foolish creature whose mistakes must be dealt with by her daughter...

The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London)[2] and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. The...

This book is a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. A party of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose trip had ended by being cast away on a Pacific island, have various setbacks...