The Canterville Ghost is a popular Oscar Wilde novel about an American ambassador who after moving from America to England settles into a haunted castl[more...]
The Call of the Wild by Jack London is regarded to be one of his best works. The central character in the novel is a dog named Buck, who after being abducted from a Californian judge is sold to a sled owner and forced to live under brutal[more...]
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Quote, "I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than that it hath been in all ages defended by many learned men, and among the rest by Socrates[more...]
Quote, "SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodyÂ#s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with i[more...]