Classic World Literature eBooks
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Classic World Literature, by Beatrix PotterThe Works of Beatrix Potter. The Original Books Collection. Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author,illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan
Classic World Literature, by Beatrix PotterThe Works of Beatrix Potter. The Original Books Collection. Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author,illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
Classic World Literature, by Beatrix PotterThe Works of Beatrix Potter. The Original Books Collection. Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author,illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
The Tale of Tom Kitten
Classic World Literature, by Beatrix PotterThe Works of Beatrix Potter. The Original Books Collection. Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author,illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
Classic World Literature, by Beatrix PotterThe Works of Beatrix Potter. The Original Books Collection. Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author,illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
The taming of the shrew
Classic World Literature, by William Shakespeare.I n the English countryside, a poor tinker named Christopher Sly becomes the target of a prank by a local lord. Finding Sly drunk out of his wits in front of an alehouse, the lord has his men take Sly to his manor, dress him in his finery, and treat him as a lord. When Sly recovers, the men tell him that he is a lord and that he only believes himself to be a tinker because he has been insane for...
The Tell-Tale Heart
Classic World Literature, by Edgar Allan Poe"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the...
The Touchstone
Classic World Literature, by Edith WhartonThe Touchstone is a novella written by Edith Wharton. It was published in 1900 and was her first published novella. Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain...
The Trespasser
Classic World Literature, by David Herbert LawrenceThe Trespasser is the second novel written by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1912. Originally it was entitled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous relationship with a married man that ended with his suicide. Lawrence worked from Corke's diary, with her permission, but also urged her to publish; which she did in 1933 as Neutral...
The Wasteland
Classic World Literature, by T.S ElliotThe Waste Land is a 434-linemodernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century. Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures—the poem...
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