Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Rackham’s pictures, up close.
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A kingdom for a stage
Three plays, and the world around them.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The escape he withheld.
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Two lecture halls, one hour
Can we borrow another’s judgment?
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Tale · English
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Inside this reader
Rackham’s pictures, up close.
Look at Rackham’s plates beside the scenes they illustrate, or take a seat at the Hatter’s table in Tea at Six.
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Arthur Rackham illustrations; proem by Austin Dobson. The source is an undated Heinemann / Doubleday, Page printing. Project Gutenberg 28885.
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The Alps
Mountains & travel · English
The Alps
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Snow, rock, and seventy paintings.
Compare Conway’s visitor and climber looking at the Jungfrau, or examine McCormick’s two paintings of Pallanza.
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The complete 1904 text by Martin Conway, with all seventy colour illustrations by A. D. McCormick. Project Gutenberg 39542 and the University of Toronto scan of the printed volume.
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Antigone
Drama · English
Antigone
Richard Claverhouse Jebb’s translation
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Creon forbids the burial. Antigone does it anyway.
Read Jebb’s complete play. In A public stain, compare Creon’s order with the prophet’s warning. The optional study includes the ending.
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The complete play in Richard Claverhouse Jebb’s prose translation: 1904 collection, 1917 reprint. Adapted Wikisource encoding retains its contributor credits and CC BY-SA 4.0 terms.
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At Table
Cooking & hospitality · English
At Table
Brillat-Savarin in Fayette Robinson’s translation
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In the kitchen
Compare asparagus, stock and coffee across a gastronome’s stories, a household manual and a professional cook’s recipes. An optional reading follows Estes’s work, wages and authorship.
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Three complete selected digital texts: Robinson’s Brillat-Savarin translation, Beeton’s Household Management and Estes’s 1911 Good Things to Eat. The Robinson witness omits two French meditations; Beeton’s digital text supplies illustration descriptions, without the engravings.
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The Awakening
A novel · English
The Awakening
1899 · Project Gutenberg transcription
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Calling cards
Edna’s afternoon off, her husband’s clients, and a page of nineteenth-century etiquette. A short note on the visits and obligations in Chapter XVII.
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The complete novel from Project Gutenberg eBook 160, without the accompanying short stories. The context note includes page 62 of M. E. W. Sherwood’s Manners and Social Usages, new and revised edition (1897).
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Ballads and a play
Poetry & drama · German / English
Ballads and a play
Historical English translations
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One stanza, two languages.
Read Goethe, Schiller and Bürger in German and English. Compare stanzas and speaker turns; follow two close readings of refusal and gesture.
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Five complete ballads and Goethe’s complete Iphigenie auf Tauris. Original German with separate historical English translations; each witness and transcription license is identified.
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Beside the Bed
Care & observation · English
Beside the Bed
Prepared by New readingFounding edition
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The visitor’s work
Follow preparations, messages, conversation and departure through two accounts of visiting the sick. An optional close reading compares a whispered corridor with a singing ward.
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Notes on Nursing, Appleton 1898; the complete Specimen Days extracted from Gutenberg’s Complete Prose Works, with its notes and verse. Historical nursing is read as literary and social evidence.
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The Book of Tea
Essays · English
The Book of Tea
Original English · 1906
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Put the kettle on.
Read Okakura on tea, art and hospitality. Make a cup with sourced sencha, black-tea and matcha methods, and an adjustable infusion timer.
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Seven essays, original English, checked against the 1906 G. P. Putnam’s Sons witness. Includes the dedication, detailed contents, ten source notes and original verse lineation.
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Caesar and the emperors
History & philosophy · English / Latin / Greek
Caesar and the emperors
Latin and Greek witnesses included
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Who gets to describe power?
Read a campaign, a public record and an emperor’s private reflections. Compare rival accounts and inspect historical siege plans.
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Caesar’s Gallic War VII, all of Augustus’s Res Gestae with its later Summary, and Meditations II–III. Selected Sallust, Tacitus and Pliny–Trajan correspondence provide other accounts.
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A Doll’s House
Drama · English
A Doll’s House
William Archer’s translation
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A play laid out to be spoken.
Read Ibsen as a working script, with speakers beside their lines, clear stage directions and direct routes to each act.
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William Archer’s translation in Heinemann’s 1909 printing. Complete cast, setting and three acts, with seven historical notes; the collected volume’s introductions and Ghosts are excluded.
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Dracula
Novel · English
Dracula
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Journals, letters. A locked castle.
Compare the Demeter’s log with accounts of its arrival in the Whitby Papers, or try to escape five castle rooms in the game.
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Complete English novel with source front and back matter, cover and publisher colophon. Project Gutenberg 345.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Story · English
The Fall of the House of Usher
Prepared by New readingFounding edition
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Two artists, two moments.
Compare Beardsley and Clarke with Poe’s words. Follow the story into film and music, with the ending kept behind a reveal.
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Tales, Wiley & Putnam, 1845, pp. 64–82. Beardsley’s 1894 drawing and Clarke’s 1919 illustration, reproduced from a Duke copy catalogued 1923.
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How writers write
Writing · English
How writers write
Twelve authors · editorial collection
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Twelve writers on writing and revision.
Short summaries with source notes, six comparative essays, and six writing exercises with a notebook.
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An editorial collection of 105 short advice summaries and ten linked Atwood topics, based on twelve Open Culture lists and separately identified primary sources. Original comparisons and exercises.
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The Inward Life
Spiritual life & philosophy · English
The Inward Life
Julian of Norwich in Grace Warrack’s version
Prepared by New readingFounding edition
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What makes an experience feel true?
Put James’s account of mystical states beside Julian’s years of interpretation and Tagore’s daily worship. A second study follows the editing and translation of these English texts.
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Revelations of Divine Love, Grace Warrack’s 1901 version; Sādhanā, the English witness dated 1916 with its credited collaborators; The Varieties of Religious Experience, twenty-eighth impression, 1917.
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A kingdom for a stage
Drama · English
A kingdom for a stage
Folger editions · noncommercial reuse
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Three plays, and the world around them.
Read with notes on Rome, kingship and the playhouse. Inspect stage directions and a later picture of Miranda.
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Complete Julius Caesar, Henry V and The Tempest. Folger editions, edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, licensed CC BY-NC 3.0; source matter and apparatus retained.
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Learning to See
Drawing & ornament · English
Learning to See
Prepared by New readingFounding edition
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From branch to pattern
Look closely at Crane’s two olive branches beside Ruskin’s attention to boughs and white intervals. An optional workbench lets you adjust a repeating sprig and inspect its joins.
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The complete selected English digital editions of The Elements of Drawing and Line & Form, including 218 source illustrations, notes and indexes.
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The Little Clay Cart
Play · English
The Little Clay Cart
1905 · Project Gutenberg transcription
Prepared by New readingFounding edition
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Historical objects and essays
A Sanskrit play of love, money, and mistaken identities, accompanied by historical objects and essays by scholars.
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Arthur W. Ryder’s 1905 translation, Project Gutenberg eBook 21020.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Memoir · English
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The escape he withheld.
Read the 1845 Narrative beside the schoolbook Douglass recalled, the 1793 law and his later account of escape.
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Boston, Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. Complete Narrative with original front matter and Appendix; UNC Documenting the American South. Three separately identified historical documents accompany Chapters VII and XI.
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Nietzsche in company
Philosophy · English
Nietzsche in company
Nietzsche’s prose: Thomas Common · Epicurus: C. D. Yonge
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Nietzsche reads Epicurus.
Read Nietzsche’s account of Epicurus beside the letter itself, then compare it with Nietzsche’s later judgment.
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The complete Joyful Wisdom, including its verse, in the 1910 English edition; Epicurus’s complete Letter to Menoeceus in C. D. Yonge’s translation. Project Gutenberg 52124 and 57342.
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The Odyssey
Epic · English
The Odyssey
Samuel Butler’s prose translation
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A voyage home. A bag of winds.
Read the complete Butler translation, then steer the boat in Homeward, a short game drawing on episodes from the poem.
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Samuel Butler’s prose translation, 1900, with Henry Festing Jones’s second preface, 1921. Project Gutenberg 1727.
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Pictures after dark
Poetry & prose · French / English
Pictures after dark
French with O’Sullivan, Merrill and Lang
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An open window. A closed one.
Compare French and English, inspect the illustrated pages, and read Bertrand beside Baudelaire.
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Eight complete works, in French and historical English. Selected 1890 illustrations by Henry W. McVickar; optional Baudelaire comparison and separately credited Hugo and Callot images.
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Pride and Prejudice
Novel · English
Pride and Prejudice
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Hugh Thomson’s 1894 illustrations.
Read the complete novel with Thomson’s drawings. An optional index finds words and phrases in the chapters you choose.
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Hugh Thomson illustrated edition, 1894. Preface by George Saintsbury. Project Gutenberg 1342.
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Two lecture halls, one hour
Philosophy · English
Two lecture halls, one hour
Hegel: E. S. Haldane · Schopenhauer: T. Bailey Saunders
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Can we borrow another’s judgment?
Compare their arguments about disagreement, winning and borrowed judgment. The paired readings come from later publications; the lecture halls are an editorial setting.
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Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy, complete volume 1 of 3, translated by E. S. Haldane; Schopenhauer’s The Art of Controversy and the other essays in the selected T. Bailey Saunders collection. Project Gutenberg 51635 and 10731. Saunders’s own omissions are retained and disclosed in this edition.
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
Nature & essays · English
Walden & Civil Disobedience
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Keep account with Thoreau.
See what the house and food accounts leave out. Inspect the pond survey beside Thoreau’s claims.
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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Project Gutenberg 205; source updated 20 February 2026.
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War and Peace
Novel · English
War and Peace
Louise and Aylmer Maude’s translation
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Inside this reader
An 1893 album, chapter by chapter.
Open the pictures as you reach their chapters, with a guide to the opening cast and notes on names and dates.
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The complete Maude translation: fifteen books and both epilogues. Twelve plates from the illustrated album published for Sever in 1893 accompany the text.
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What Can Music Say?
Music & aesthetics · English
What Can Music Say?
Hanslick: Gustav Cohen · Tolstoy: Aylmer Maude
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One symphony, two judgments
Hanslick and Tolstoy both find difficulties in Beethoven’s Ninth. Read the passages together and examine the different things each critic asks music to do.
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The Beautiful in Music, Gustav Cohen’s translation of the seventh German edition in the 1891-dated scan witness; What Is Art?, Aylmer Maude’s 1904 witness. Historical notation and full source apparatus accompany the texts.
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