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The Daughter of Time
The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling.

1951 129 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.
A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

1885 115 ed.
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

Down in the valley there were three farms.

1970 139 ed.
Ulysses
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...

1914 612 ed.
Twilight
Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I...

2005 131 ed.
Доктор Живаго
Доктор Живаго

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

1957 176 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.
Die Blechtrommel
Die Blechtrommel

by Günter Grass

GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a pe...

1959 111 ed.
Dune
Dune

by Frank Herbert

In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy...

1965 120 ed.
Eva Luna
Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

Me llamo Eva, que quiere decir vida, segun un libro que mi madre consulto para escoger mi nombre.

1987 107 ed.
Villette, a novel
Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

1853 519 ed.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

1985 164 ed.
Il nome della rosa
Il nome della rosa

by Umberto Eco

ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en ...

1980 151 ed.
Lust for Life
Lust for Life

by Irving Stone

VICE-ADMIRAL JOHANNES VAN GOGH, highest ranking officer in the Dutch Navy, stood on the stoep of his roomy, rent-free re...

1934 115 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.
La Peste
La Peste

by Albert Camus

Les curieux évènements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produit en 194., à Oran.

1942 280 ed.
Rebecca
Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

1938 200 ed.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

1994 104 ed.