Sad Cypress

by Agatha Christie

AN anonymous letter!

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Hari yang dingin dan cerah di bulan April, dan jam-jam berdentang tiga belas kali.

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...

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night.

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

Letters to a young poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Your letter reached me just a few days ago.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Вишневый сад

by Антон Павлович Чехов

Early dawn. The old nursery, with several doors, one of them to ANYA's bedroom.

La Fiesta del Chivo

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Urania. Her parents had done her no favor; her name suggested a planet, a mineral, anything but the slender, fine-featur...

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...

Silas Marner

by George Eliot, John O'Connor

IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...

Everything Sad Is Untrue

by Daniel Nayeri

The anatomy of melancholy

by Robert Burton

VADE liber, qualis, non ausim dicere, felix, Te nisi felicem fecerit Alma dies.