β Scribed by Jami Davenport
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Bible, The story of Jacob and Esau -- Horace, from The satires (c. 29 B.C.) -- Arabian nights, The history of the barber's sixth brother -- Giovanni Boccaccio, from The decameron (1348-53) -- Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Canterbury tales (c. 1387-1400) -- William Shakespeare, from The taming of the shrew (c. 1594) -- Miguel de Cervantes, from Don Quixote (1615) -- Ben Jonson, from Inviting a friend to supper (1616) -- Daniel Defoe, from Moll Flanders (1722) -- Olvier Goldsmith, from She stoops to conquer (1773) -- Jane Austen, from Emma (1815) -- Nikolai Gogol, from Dead souls (1842) -- Charles Dickens, from A Christmas carol (1843) -- Alexandre Dumas, from The vicomte de Bragelonne (1848-50) -- William Makepeace Thackeray, from Pendennis (1850) -- Gustave Flaubert, from Madame Bovary (1857) -- Leo Tolstoy, from Anna Karenina (1875-76) -- Emile Zola, from L'assommoir (1877) -- Guy de Maupassant, Forbidden fruit (c. 1880) -- Anton Chekhov, from A woman's kingdom (1894) -- Oscar Wilde, from The importance of being earnest (1895) -- Marcel Proust, from Swann's Way (1913) -- Sholom Aleichem, Tit for tat (c. 1915) -- John Galsworthy, from A stoic (1916) -- Thomas Mann, from The magic mountain (1926) -- Virginia Woolf, To the lighthouse (1927) -- Joel Barlow, from Hasty pudding (1796) -- Washington Irving, from The legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) -- Herman Melville, from Moby Dick (1851) -- Lafcadio Hearn, from The last of the Voudoos (1885) -- Theodore Dreiser, from Sister Carrie (1900) -- Henry James, from The ambassadors (1903) -- Thomas Wolfe, from Of time and the river (1935) -- John Steinbeck, Breakfast (1938).
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