A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.
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'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the h
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.'
In this charming bo
'Nothing more lonely -'
A selection of Basho's most magical haiku
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'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.'Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh an
The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'
A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle
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'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.'
Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning'
'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world
'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head'
One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories
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Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other fam
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'
A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'
From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucina
'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.'
In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must
Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.
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This joyful poetic satire describes wig thieves, chamberpots, prostitutes and other hazards to be avoided on the teeming streets of eighteenth-century London.
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside.
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'
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'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'
Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moment
I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'
In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depic
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.'
Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.
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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little B
'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.'
The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia.
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'Cut iron with iron,
What makes iron valuable,
Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree,
Fari and Kaunju -'
Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the sto
'... that strange internal kingdom of which we are the hapless and helpless monarchs.'
From the master of the detective story and creator of Sherlock Holmes, the first ever tale to feature a s
'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?'
A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'.
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'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.
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