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The Diary of a Nobody

Grossmith, George; Grossmith, Weedon

The work is a comic diary of a modest English clerk, Charles Pooter, who has just moved into a six‑roomed…

A Tale of a Tub

Jonathan Swift

The work opens with a sprawling, self‑conscious dedication in which the unnamed bookseller‑author explains…

The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

The volume presents a selection of Giacomo Leopardi’s Italian poems rendered into English by the…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10)

The volume opens with a series of numbered tales, beginning with the story of Nur Al‑Din Ali and the damsel…

The Decameron, Volume I

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron is a medieval frame narrative that gathers a hundred short tales told by a group of young…

Shakespeare's First Folio

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s First Folio is the 1623 collection that first brought together the playwright’s comedies,…

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The opening of Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram‑Haugh situates itself firmly in the Gothic tradition,…

The story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga

Sir George Dasent’s translation of the Icelandic Njál’s Saga appears here under the evocative title The Story…

Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a tragi‑comic portrait of middle‑class life in nineteenth‑century France, presented as the first…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that centers on the royal family of Denmark, exploring themes of…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

The work is a nineteenth‑century Scottish psychological novel that frames its story as a “private memoir” of…

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Hunger

Knut Hamsun

The novel is a stark, first‑person study of a young man’s descent into poverty in Christiania, the capital of…

Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story

Sir Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson is a comic romance set amid the ritualised world of Oxford University.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva

The Virata Parva opens with the sage Vaisampayana addressing the assembled heroes, recalling how the Pandavas…

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that centers on a monarch’s fraught relationship with his…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

François Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

François Rabelais

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland HTML Edition

Lewis Carroll

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala

Toru; Kālidāsa; Valmiki Dutt

Just—William

Richmal Crompton

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

François Rabelais