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4:50 from Paddington
4:50 from Paddington

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.

1957 140 ed.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

1800 327 ed.
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

by Agatha Christie

Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.

1960 126 ed.
Brave New World
Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

1932 721 ed.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar ...

1939 210 ed.
Bleak House
Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

1850 418 ed.
Inferno
Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

1767 446 ed.
Murder on the Links
Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...

1923 272 ed.
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

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...

1887 1447 ed.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

1908 1346 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.
Анна Каренина
Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...

1876 1314 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré

The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?

1602 144 ed.
His Last Bow [8 stories]
His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

1917 583 ed.
The Sign of Four
The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

1889 961 ed.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...

1954 251 ed.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
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.

1893 530 ed.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Была пятая гадзіна зімовай раніцы.

1933 247 ed.