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Sult
Sult

by Knut Hamsun

All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania-that strange city no one escapes from until it h...

1890 154 ed.
Der Zauberberg
Der Zauberberg

by Thomas Mann

AN ORDINARY YOUNG MAN was on his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden.

1924 188 ed.
Im Westen nichts Neues
Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

1928 224 ed.
Le fantôme de l'opéra
Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

IT was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

1911 131 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

1813 133 ed.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style

by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.

1920 273 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 ed.
Le rouge et le noir
Le rouge et le noir

by Stendhal

The little town of Verrieres is one of the prettiest in Franche-Comte.

1830 404 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

1844 1104 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

1603 2377 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

1800 2059 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

1600 1505 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
Rembrandt
Rembrandt

by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Holm Bevers

1900 93 ed.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

A fox slipped in climbing a fence.

1848 91 ed.
The  black arrow
The black arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir Daniel and his men lay in and about Kettley that night, warmly quartered and well patrolled.

1888 175 ed.
Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

I WAS BORN in the city of Bombay... once upon a time.

1981 71 ed.
John Barleycorn
John Barleycorn

by Jack London

IT all came to me one election day.

1913 161 ed.