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Great Expectations
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...

1861 1489 ed.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

1811 2090 ed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...

1890 3012 ed.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.

1845 1032 ed.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...

1908 1299 ed.
Анна Каренина
Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

1876 1314 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
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...

1800 2406 ed.
Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:-it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

1865 1378 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.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

1686 2420 ed.
American notes
American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

1800 233 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

1603 2377 ed.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.

1950 157 ed.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A warm, well-furnished room, reflecting more taste than expense.

1889 255 ed.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

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...

1900 118 ed.
Cranford
Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

1853 473 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.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

1898 563 ed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

1892 1132 ed.