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The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Quote, "Well, if in any woes or wars I bought my naked right to be, Grew worthy of the grass, nor gave The wren, my brother, shame for me."
Juana
Quote, "An awful destiny! Juana, who felt neither esteem nor love for Diard, was bound to him forever, by a rash but necessary promise. The man was neither handsome nor well-made. His manners, devo...
Gobseck
Quote, "His room, and everything in it, from the green baize of the bureau to the strip of carpet by the bed, was as clean and threadbare as the chilly sanctuary of some elderly spinster who spends...
A Double Story
Quote, "Not that the child was a fool. Had she been, the wise woman would have only pitied and loved her, instead of feeling sick when she looked at her. She had very fair abilities, and were she o...
Hermann and Dorothea
Hermann and Dorothea is Goethe's poem written about a German girl who escapes turmoil caused by the French Revolution. This poem's actual basis was the emission of one thousand Protestants from the...
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal is a satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
A Tale of Three Lions
A Tale of Three Lions by H. Rider Haggard. In this thrilling tale of danger and adventure, young Harry joins his father, the famous Alan Quatermain, on a hunt for lions deep in Africa.
Grass of Parnassus
Grass of Parnassus is a collection of poetry by Andrew Lang.
Father Damien
Father Damien was a Flemish Catholic missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who dedicated his life to in service to the lepers of Molokai, Hawaii. Today father Damien...
Tom Tiddler's Ground
Quote, "A slothful, unsavoury, nasty reversal of the laws of human mature," said the Traveller; "and for the sake of GOD'S working world and its wholesomeness, both moral and physical, I would put ...
The Sea Fogs
Quote, "Robert Louis Stevenson first came to California in 1879 for the purpose of getting married. The things that delayed his marriage are sufficiently set forth in his "Letters" (edited by Sidne...
Dream Psychology
Dream Psychology, Sigmund Frend, Psychology
The Storm
Quote, "KATERINA. Yes, I am well.... It would be better if I were ill, it's worse as it is. A dream keeps creeping into my mind, and I cannot get away from it. I try to think--I can't collect my th...
All He Knew A Story
All He Knew A Story by John Habberton details late 19th early 20th century Californian life. Fiction
Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw, set in Roman times, about a slave who gets saved from torture by a lion. Shaw writes the play using slapstick humour, verbal w...
Angling Sketches
Angling sketches retells Andrew Lang's fishing adventures in the Scotish waters. Non-fiction.
An Inland Voyage
An Inland Voyage is regarded as the fist piece of outdoor literature. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, it is his travel account from a canoeing trip along the River Oise through France and Belgiu...
Amy Foster
Amy Foster is a short story about a Polish immigrant who falls for an English woman while been shipwrecked on the shores of Kent, England en route to America. Yanko Goorall eventually marries this ...
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories by Mark Twain
American Notes
American Notes by Rudyard Kipling. Written by the first ever British Nobel prize recipient for literature, Indian born Kipling details his travels to San Francisco in the lat 19th Century.