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Moby-DickHerman Melville, 1851Call me Ishmael. Some years ago, never mind how long precisely, having little or no money in my…
Lo-fi0/3- A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens, 1859
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age…
Battle0/3 - Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen, 1813
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must…
City pop0/3 - The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I have been turning…
City pop0/3 - FrankensteinMary Shelley, 1818
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise…
Future bass0/3 - The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells, 1898
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was…
Future bass0/3 - A Scandal in BohemiaArthur Conan Doyle, 1891
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other…
City pop0/3 - Alice in WonderlandLewis Carroll, 1865
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having…
Lo-fi0/3 - The Call of the WildJack London, 1903
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone…
Battle0/3 - The Art of WarSun Tzu, tr. Lionel Giles, 1910
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road…
Battle0/3 - Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte, 1847
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the…
Lo-fi0/3 - WaldenHenry David Thoreau, 1854
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of…
Lo-fi0/3 - The Time MachineH. G. Wells, 1895
The Time Traveller, for so it will be convenient to speak of him, was expounding a recondite…
Future bass0/3 - The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde, 1890
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred…
City pop0/3 - The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe, 1843
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will you say that I am…
Battle0/3 - HamletWilliam Shakespeare, 1600
To be, or not to be, that is the question: whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the…
Battle0/3 - Peter and WendyJ. M. Barrie, 1911
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy…
Lo-fi0/3 - The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum, 1900
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer,…
Lo-fi0/3 - Henry VWilliam Shakespeare, 1599
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead.…
Anthem0/3 - The Charge of the Light BrigadeAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1854
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of Death rode the six…
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Theodore RooseveltSpeeches, 1899It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or…
Anthem0/3- Frederick DouglassSpeeches, 1852
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet…
Anthem0/3 - Marcus AureliusMeditations, 1862
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful,…
Lo-fi0/3 - Helen KellerThe Story of My Life, 1903
The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher came to me. I…
Lo-fi0/3 - Nikola TeslaMy Inventions, 1919
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important…
Future bass0/3 - Mark TwainFollowing the Equator, 1897today
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it, and stop there,…
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