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The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull by Russian author Anton Checkov, a romantic play, was inspired by a real-life incident of the death of a sea gull.
Tales Of Hearsay
Tales Of Hearsay is a collection of stories by Joseph Conrad.
Weir of Hermiston
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson is regarded by many in the literary world as one of the greatest unfinished masterpieces. It tells the story of Archie Weir, who is banished by his sever...
What Men Live By and Other Tales
Quote, "And Simon and Matryona understood who it was that had lived with them, and whom they had clothed and fed. And they wept with awe and with joy. And the angel said: "I was alone in the field,...
The Mystery of Cloomber
Quote, "At this moment he fell back upon his pillow as if he had been shot, while the same look of horror came over his face which I had observed when I first entered the room. At the same instant ...
Around the World in 80 days
Around the World in 80 days, the classic novel by Jules Verne
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
Quote, "The old merchant was to be seen standing on the threshold of his shop, as if by a miracle, the instant the servant withdrew. Monsieur Guillaume looked at the Rue Saint-Denis, at the neighbo...
On the Significance of Science and Art
Quote, "But this is unjust. I not only do not repudiate art and science, but, in the name of that which is true art and true science, I say that which I do say; merely in order that mankind may eme...
Typhoon
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad is a classic sea tale about a Captain Macwhirr who sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon.
Uneasy Money
Uneasy Money by P.G. Wodehouse is a comical novel that tells the story about Lord "Bill" Dawlish, golf lover, and his adventures in romance, golf and the theatre.
A Man of Business
Quote, "It all goes to the shoemakers," she said. "I left a milliner because she failed twice with my hats. The vixen has been here twenty-seven times to ask for twenty francs. She did not know tha...
The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay
The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay is Alexandre Dumas's own analysis about the final volume of the Three Musketeers series.
The Poison Belt
The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle follows his first novel The Lost World. Again, Professor Challenger is central to this story, in dealing with the problem of Earth's passing through a pois...
The Inheritors
The Inheritors is one of the two books that Joseph Conrad co-wrote with Ford Madox Ford. Quote, "It was a palatial apartment furnished in white and gold -- Louis Quinze, or something of the sort...
The Cenci - Celebrated Crimes
Quote, "Caesar's ambition was only fed by victories: scarcely was he master of Faenza before, excited by the Mariscotti, old enemies of the Bentivoglio family, he cast his eyes upon Bologna; but Gi...
Gambara
Quote, "But the hour was not unpropitious for the indulgence of some discreditable whim. Earlier, he might have been detected; later, he might find himself cut out. Tempted by a glance which is enc...
The Bridge Builders
Quote, "There were labour contractors by the half-hundred - fitters and riveters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct, u...
A Letter to a Hindu
A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to an Indian newspaper that propelled controversy as well as helped to form a friendship between Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi who had been liv...
The Mad King
The Mad King, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction
The Ancestral Footstep
Quote, "Not a whit," said the old man. "England will never understand America; for England never does understand a foreign country; and whatever you may say about kindred, America is as much a fore...