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The Hound of the Baskervilles -By Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the
mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when
he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I
stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which
our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was...
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells
ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by
collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1’ S. and
longitude 107’ W.
On January the Fifth, 1888—that is eleven months and
four days after— my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private
gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady...
The Jungle Book -By Rudyard Kipling
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night
That Mang the Bat sets free—
The herds are shut in byre and hut
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all
That keep the Jungle Law!
Night-Song in the...
The Brothers Karamazov -By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well
known in our district in his own day, and still
remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic
death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I
shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will
only say that this...
The Idiot -By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine
o’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and
Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full
speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was
only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in
breaking; and it was...
The Iliad -By Homer
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus,
that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a
brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many
a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were
the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the
son...
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