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About the Holy Bible

Robert Green Ingersoll

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains..

Abroad with the Jimmies

Lilian Bell

If the critical public had cared to snub Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie and Bee, I, who am a fighting champion of theirs, would never have run the risk of boring it by a further chronicle of their travels. But f..

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Anonymous

The story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale that is included in A Thousand and One Nights, and is the story of a poor boy in a Chinese city. Aladdin is convinced by a sorcerer to fetch a magic ..

Before Adam

Jack London

Before Adam is a novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid. The story offers an early view of..

The Dead

James Joyce

This novella is the final story in Joyce’s collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Con..

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy.  The story of “Ivan the Fool” portrays Tolstoi’s communistic ideas, involving the ..

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress (from This World to That Which Is to Come) is a work of religious literature by John Bunyan, published in 1678. For a time, Pilgrim's Progress was the "other book" in the Christ..

The University of Hard Knocks

Ralph Albert Parlette

LADIES and Gentlemen:I do not want to be seen in this lecture. I want to be heard. I am only the delivery wagon. When the delivery wagon comes to your house, you are not much interested in how it look..