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Анна Каренина
by Лев Толстой
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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...
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...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...
The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Emma Orczy
A SURGING, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
La Poetica
by Aristotle
We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...
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...
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...
Pollyanna
by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter
With a frown Miss Polly folded the letter and tucked it into its envelope.
Mémoires d'Hadrien
by Marguerite Yourcenar
My dear Mark, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey...
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...