El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Rivera

THE COLONEL took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left.

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Была пятая гадзіна зімовай раніцы.

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Vom Kriege

by Carl von Clausewitz

Despite its comprehensiveness, systematic approach, and precise style, On War is not a finished work.

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

Sparkling Cyanide

by Agatha Christie

Iris Marle was thinking about her sister, Rosemary.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde rem...

Cards on the Table

by Agatha Christie

"MY dear Monsieur Poirot!" It was a soft purring voice used deliberately as an instrument-nothing impulsive or unpremedi...

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Meghadūta

by Kālidāsa

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

Elements

by Euclid

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things ...

The Wisdom of Father Brown

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along th...