Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Tax administration

by United States. General Accounting Office

La père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful...

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

Este relato es sobre un hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol.

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

For want of a nail the kingdom was lost-that's how the catechism goes when you boil it down.

Sociology

by John J. Macionis

Back to Methuselah

by George Bernard Shaw

Hitchcock

by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock

FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT. Mr. Hitchcock, you were born in London on August 13, 1899.

Being Mortal

by Atul Gawande

El amante japonés

by Isabel Allende

The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

A Perfect Spy

by John le Carré

In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by it's...

センセイの鞄

by 川上弘美

Hans formella namn är Matsumoto Harutsuna, men jag kallar honom Sensei, »magistern«.

Care compromise and economy

Felix Holt, the radical

by George Eliot

FIVE-AND-THIRTY years ago the glory had not yet departed from the old coach-roads : the great roadside inns were still b...

City of thieves

by David Benioff

Velocity

by Dean Koontz

Measures to promote the health andautonomy of older people i...