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The BFG
The BFG

by Roald Dahl

It wasn't a human.

1980 136 ed.
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night.

1962 105 ed.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

1776 222 ed.
Women in Love
Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

1877 564 ed.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...

1939 321 ed.
Преступление и наказание
Преступление и наказание

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

No início de julho, ao entardecer, sob um calor intenso, um jovem saiu do cubículo que sublocava na travessa S.

1866 1178 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

1600 1505 ed.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

1961 147 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

1899 552 ed.
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
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...

1851 471 ed.
The Jungle
The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

1707 673 ed.
Northern Lights
Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

1995 148 ed.
Holes
Holes

by Louis Sachar

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

1988 83 ed.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

1903 1700 ed.
White Fang
White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

1905 387 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
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.

1488 1063 ed.
She
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 ...

1886 506 ed.