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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.

1926 220 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

1884 584 ed.
Kritik der reinen Vernunft
Kritik der reinen Vernunft

by Immanuel Kant

IN whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear, that the on...

1781 153 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

1564 323 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

1600 1594 ed.
Ben Hur
Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...

1800 201 ed.
Legenda aurea
Legenda aurea

by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton

The apostle James was called James of Zebedee, James brother of John, Boanerges, i.e., son of thunder, and James the Gre...

1476 96 ed.
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

by Immanuel Kant, Jhon Duran

The only thing that is good without qualification or restriction is a good will.

1785 85 ed.
The Abbot
The Abbot

by Sir Walter Scott

THE time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners, and character, a...

1800 91 ed.
Four Past Midnight
Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

Brian Engle rolled the American Pride L1011 to a stop at Gate 22 and flicked off the FASTEN SEATBELT light at exactly 10...

1990 64 ed.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by Montague Rhodes James

Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days.

1904 179 ed.
Les contes drôlatiques
Les contes drôlatiques

by Honoré de Balzac

This is a book of the highest flavour, full of right hearty merriment, spiced to the palate of the illustrious and very ...

1855 140 ed.
Jane's Fighting Ships
Jane's Fighting Ships

by Fred T. Jane

"If anyone wishes to know the history of this war, I will tell them that it is our maritime superiority that gives me th...

1898 146 ed.
Quentin Durward, or, The fortunate Scotsman
Quentin Durward, or, The fortunate Scotsman

by Sir Walter Scott

THE latter part of the fifteenth century prepared a train of future events, that ended by raising France to that state o...

1800 195 ed.
L'Heptaméron
L'Heptaméron

by Marguerite Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

1740 129 ed.
Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ...
Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ...

by Sir Walter Scott

The dinner hour of Scotland Sixty Years Since was two o'clock.

1800 379 ed.