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by Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

This is a story about a pussy cat Miss Moppet and a mouse peeping out behind the cupboard, and making fun of Miss Moppet. He is not afraid of a kitten.
by James Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

There are people who do not like dogs a bit—they are usually women—but in this story there is a man who did not like dogs. In fact, he hated them. When he saw one he used to go black in the face, and he threw rocks at it until it got out of sight. But the Power that protects all creatures had put a squint into this man’s eye, so that he always threw crooked.
by James Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

The abbot of the Monastery of Moville sent word to the story-tellers of Ireland that when they were in his neighbourhood they should call at the monastery, for he wished to collect and write down the stories which were in danger of being forgotten.
by E. Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

On Christmas Eve, the children of Doctor Stahlbaum were not allowed into the family room, let alone the adjoining living room. Evening had come, and Fritz and Marie Stahlbaum sat huddled in a corner. As was usual on Christmas Eve, no-one had brought in a light, and so they sat in an eerie darkness.
by Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson’s poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes,—life and love and death. That 'irresistible...
by Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

This collection of Emily Dickinson poems is published to meet the desire of her personal friends, and especially of her surviving sister. It is believed that the thoughtful reader will find in these pages a quality more suggestive of the poetry of William Blake than of anything to be elsewhere found,—flashes...
by Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

The verses of Emily Dickinson are produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer’s own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways.
by Bessie Hatton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

There was a young King who ought to have been the happiest monarch in the world. He was blessed with everything a mortal could desire. His palace might have been designed by the Divine architect Himself, so perfect was it in all its parts; and it stood amidst gardens with its dependent village at its...
by Aristophanes
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

Lysistrata is a comedy originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. A comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate...
by Samuel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

At length, my dearest Miss Howe, I am in London, and in my new lodgings. They are neatly furnished, and the situation, for the town, is pleasant. But I think you must not ask me how I like the old gentlewoman. Yet she seems courteous and obliging.—Her kinswomen just appeared to welcome me at my...
by Samuel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

I parted with the Captain after another strong debate with him in relation to what is to be the fate of this lady. As the fellow has an excellent head, and would have made an eminent figure in any station of life, had not his early days been tainted with a deep crime, and he detected in it; and as...
by Friedrich Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

An incomplete drama based on the life of Demetrius, briefly Russian czar between 1604 and 1605. It is a reflection on the individual's responsibility in history and on the rule of Napoleon.
by Friedrich Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Schiller's Poems of the Second Period including: Hymn to Joy, The Invincible Armada, The Gods of Greece, Resignation, The Conflict, The Artists, The Celebrated Woman, Written in a Young Lady's Album.
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

One day some children found, in a ravine, a thing shaped like a grain of corn, with a groove down the middle, but as large as a hen's egg. A traveller passing by saw the thing, bought it from the children for a penny, and taking it to town sold it to the King as a curiosity. The King called together his wise men, and told them to find out what the thing was.
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