Classic Literature


Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
1984
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Animal Farm
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Of Mice and Men
Sense and Sensibility
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Emma

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The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
Snow White and Other Grimms' Fairy Tales (MinaLima Edition)
Opowiadania prawie wszystkie
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
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Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen I saw thee once-once only-years ago; I must not say how many-but not many. It was a july midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe- Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That gave out, in retu ...more
Edgar Allen Poe

Louisa May Alcott
Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair." "Why should you, with so much energy and talent?" "That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore. ...more
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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