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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...
Essay concerning human understanding
by John Locke
1. Man fitted to form articulated Sounds.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New Yo...
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Бѣсы
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
ALL true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in...
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Irving Stone
HE SAT before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat bro...
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.