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Orlando
Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

1928 452 ed.
Flush
Flush

by Virginia Woolf, Eileen Atkins

IT IS universally admitted that the family from which the subject of this memoir claims descent is one of the greatest a...

1694 206 ed.
The Lost World
The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

1900 747 ed.
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

1892 538 ed.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

1920 1091 ed.
Dubliners
Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

1914 996 ed.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

1861 386 ed.
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?

1929 303 ed.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
Мы
Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

1924 210 ed.
Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

1818 832 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...

1890 3012 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

1900 344 ed.
Ulysses
Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

1914 612 ed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
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 ...

1892 1132 ed.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

1811 2090 ed.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, expect one, grow up.

1911 441 ed.