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The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), composed and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes...

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a book for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial in 1881 and 1882, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named...

This Nikolai Gogol collection features six famous short tales by the acclaimed Russian author.  Included are: Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Ivans Quarraled, The Mysterious Portrait, and The Calash. Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical short story by Nikolai Gogol. It describes...

The Government Inspector , also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical work by the Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol.  Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy...

Dead Souls is a book by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character. Gogol masterfully portrayed those defects through Paul Ivanovitch...

Life in the Iron Mills is a short story (or novel) written by Rebecca Harding Davis in 1861, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It is one of the first American realist works, and is an important text for those who study labor and women's issues. It was immediately recognized as an...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (usually shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.  It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic...

The Swiss Family Robinson is a book by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. The book opens with the family in the hold of a sailing ship, weathering a great storm. The ship runs aground on a reef, and...

The Miser is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière. It was originally performed on September 9, 1668, in the theatre of the Palais-Royal in Paris. The miser of the title is called Harpagon, a name adapted from the Latin harpago, meaning a hook or grappling iron. He is...

The Prince and the Pauper is a book by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance:...

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedic play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean Era comedies....

The Alchemist is a comedy by British playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play's clever fulfilment...

Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last composed of his four great comedies. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men. Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicœne, or the Silent Woman, and nine after...

Mathilda , or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, composed between August 1819 and February 1820. It deals with common Romantic themes of incest and suicide. This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  It has also been annotated,...