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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...
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...
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, ...
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.
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nur selten beherbergen Ahnenhallen den Sommer über ganz gewöhnliche Leute wie John und mich.
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 ...
A Mind That Found Itself
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...
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...
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...
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
Discours de la méthode
by René Descartes
Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that ev...
The Club of Queer Trades
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...
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 go to do with a room of one's own?
She
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
La père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.