Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe  Author: Daniel Defoe Subjects: Adventure; Classic; Fiction The book is presen...

A Tale Which Holdeth Children From Play And Old Men From The Chimney Corner. ~ Sir Philip Sidney As it is usual for great pe...

I began my travels where I purpose to end them, viz., at the City of London, and therefore my account of the city itself will come las...

A Highland Officer  Now in Prison at Avignon. I was not above Seventeen Years of Age when the Battle of Gillycranky was fought...

Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes,  Viz. His robbing the Shop of Mr. Bains in White-Horse-Yard...

It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was...

This is a proverb so common in everybody's mouth, that I wonder nobody has yet thought it worth while to draw proper inferences ...

SIR, The Bath lies very low, is but a small city, but very compact, and one can hardly imagine it could accommodate near the company...

Sir, I find so much left to speak of, and so many things to say in every part of England, that my journey cannot be barren of inte...

It cannot be unknown to any that have travell'd into the Dominions of the Czar of Muscovy, that this famous rising Monarch, having...

This thing is so rare in all its circumstances, and on so good authority, that my reading and conversation have not given me anythin...