Elementary Composition
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George R. Carpenter
Language & Communication · B1–B2 · 7 hr0% read
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Practical Exercises in English
Huber Gray Buehler
Language & Communication · B1–B2 · 4 hr0% read
Practical English Composition: Book II
Edwin L. Miller
Language & Communication · B1–B2 · 3 hr0% read
English Grammar and Composition for Public Schools
G. H. Armstrong
Language & Communication · B1–B2 · 3 hr0% read
New Century Speaker and Writer
Henry Davenport Northrop
Language & Communication · B1–B2 · 21 hr0% read
The Maine Woods
Henry David Thoreau
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 9 hr0% read
Following the Equator
Mark Twain
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 17 hr0% read
The Silverado Squatters
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 3 hr0% read
Italian Hours
Henry James
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 11 hr0% read
The Cruise of the ‘Cachalot’
Frank T. Bullen
Travel & Nature · B2–C1 · 10 hr0% read
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Biography & Memoir · B1–B2 · 7 hr0% read
My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
Biography & Memoir · B1–B2 · 5 hr0% read
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
Elizabeth Gaskell
Biography & Memoir · B2–C1 · 8 hr0% read
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson
Biography & Memoir · B2–C1 · 2 hr0% read
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Biography & Memoir · B2–C1 · 2 hr0% read
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery & Crime · B1–B2 · 9 hr0% read
The Man Who Knew Too Much
G. K. Chesterton
Mystery & Crime · B1–B2 · 5 hr0% read
The Mystery of Cloomber
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery & Crime · B1–B2 · 4 hr0% read
The Big Bow Mystery
Israel Zangwill
Mystery & Crime · B1–B2 · 4 hr0% read
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Mystery & Crime · B2–C1 · 8 hr0% read
Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1
Christopher Marlowe
Drama · B2–C1 · 2 hr0% read
The Miser
Molière
Drama · B1–B2 · 2 hr0% read
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
Drama · A2–B1 · 3 hr0% read
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Oscar Wilde
Drama · A2–B1 · 2 hr0% read
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