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Shane
Shane

by Jack Schaefer

HE RODE INTO OUR VALLEY in the summer of '89.

1920 26 ed.
Beowulf
Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

2000 7 ed.
Passing
Passing

by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson

It was the last letter in Irene Redfield's little pile of morning mail.

1929 74 ed.
Catch-22
Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

1961 134 ed.
The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

The lunch hour in the co-workers' cafeteria at Frankenberg's had reached its peak.

1952 72 ed.
Carmilla
Carmilla

by Sheridan Le Fanu

Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he acc...

1871 571 ed.
The Buddha and his Dhamma
The Buddha and his Dhamma

by B. R. Ambedkar, Bhimrdo Ramji Ambedkar

1970 13 ed.
Cane
Cane

by Jean Toomer

Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern...

1923 61 ed.
The Awakening
The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and a yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en!

1899 347 ed.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

1800 328 ed.
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism

by John Stuart Mill

THERE ARE few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might h...

1863 95 ed.
Dubliners
Dubliners

by James Joyce

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

1914 996 ed.
The Crucible
The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...

1953 83 ed.
Candide
Candide

by Voltaire

In Westphalia, in Baron Thunder-den-tronckh's mansion, lived a young man born wonderfully mild and gentle.

1746 1079 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.