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
Early Light
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress by Frances BurneyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëIvanhoe by Walter  ScottBy Frances Burney - Evelina by Frances BurneyThe Iliad by Homer
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Oscar Wilde
Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing
Oscar Wilde

Alexei Panshin
Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead. ...more
Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage

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