Found 7,714 results for "Imprisonment"
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
Five Little Pigs
by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.
Se questo è un uomo
by Primo Levi
I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
ON the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Phara...
Metamorphoses
by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...
Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore
THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
Grace abounding to the chief of sinners
by John Bunyan
IN THIS MY RELATION of the merciful working of God upon my soul, it will not be amiss, if, in the first place, I do in a...
De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
MY DEAR ROBBIE,-I want you to have a letter written at once to Mr. - the solicitor, stating that as my wife has promised...
The discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
IT IS MORE THAN TWENTY MONTHS SINCE WE WERE BROUGHT HERE, more than twenty months of my ninth term of imprisonment.
Killing Pablo
by Mark Bowden
On the day that Pablo Escobar was killed, his mother, Hermilda, came to the place on foot.
The Bible in Spain
by George Henry Borrow, Ulick Ralph Burke
On the morning of the tenth of November, 1835, I found myself off the coast of Galicia, whose lofty mountains, gilded by...
The simple truth
by David Baldacci
At this prison the doors are inches thick, steel; once factory smooth, they now carry multiple dents.
