In the year of our Lord 66, the Emperor Nero, being at that time in the twenty-ninth year of his life and the thirteenth of his reign, set sail for Greece with the strangest company and the most singular design that any monarch has ever entertaine […]
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose […]
The house of Theodosius, the famous eastern merchant, was in the best part of Constantinople at the Sea Point which is near the church of Saint Demetrius. Here he would entertain in so princely a fashion that even the Emperor Maurice had been know […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Bram Stoker (Брем Стокер).
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Dracula
У розділі представлені твори письменника Carl Sagan (Карл Саган).
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Contact
У розділі представлені твори письменника Charles Dickens (Чарльз Діккенс).
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A […]
My child,
To recount with what trouble I have brought you up--with what an anxious eye I have regarded your progress,--how late and how often I have sat up at night working for you,--and how many thousand letters I have received from, and […]
The wish of persons in the humbler classes of life, to ape the manners and customs of those whom fortune has placed above them, is often the subject of remark, and not unfrequently of complaint. The inclination may, and no doubt does, exist to a g […]
It is very generally allowed that public conveyances afford an extensive field for amusement and observation. Of all the public conveyances that have been constructed since the days of the Ark-- we think that is the earliest on record--to the pres […]
A great event has recently occurred in our parish. A contest of paramount interest has just terminated; a parochial convulsion has taken place. It has been succeeded by a glorious triumph, which the country--or at least the parish--it is all the s […]
'Now ladies, up in the sky-parlour: only once a year, if you please!'
Young lady with brass ladle.
'Sweep--sweep--sw-e-ep!'
Illegal watchword.
The first of May! There is a merry freshne […]
The row of houses in which the old lady and her troublesome neighbour reside, comprises, beyond all doubt, a greater number of characters within its circumscribed limits, than all the rest of the parish put together. As we cannot, consistently wit […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Clifford D. Simak (Кліффорд Саймак).
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У розділі представлені твори письменника Douglas Adams (Дуглас Адамс).
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Dird Gen […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Edgar Allan Poe (Едгар Аллан По).
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A D […]
