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Browse fantasy, mystery, horror and Urdu stories from world literature, with language-specific collections, author credits and source-linked editions.

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Literary

El casamiento engañoso

Read the complete original Spanish text of El casamiento engañoso by Miguel de Cervantes, with a historical bibliographic reference to the University of Granada Hospital Real Library's 1625 edition.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spanish
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What You Want

Complete original English short story from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million (1910).

O. Henry English
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Vanity and Some Sables

Complete original English short story from The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million (1907).

O. Henry English
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Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

Complete original English short story from The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million (1907).

O. Henry English
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Tommy's Burglar

Complete original English short story from Whirligigs (1910).

O. Henry English
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The Venturers

Complete original English short story from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million (1910).

O. Henry English
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The Unknown Quantity

Complete original English short story from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million (1910).

O. Henry English
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The Trimmed Lamp

Complete original English short story from The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million (1907).

O. Henry English
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The Thing's the Play

Complete original English short story from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million (1910).

O. Henry English
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