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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.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

1920 495 ed.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

563 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

1862 526 ed.
Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.

1912 226 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.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

1924 219 ed.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

1811 2090 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

1880 1091 ed.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...

457 ed.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

1818 832 ed.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner

IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...

1800 318 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
Das Schloß
Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late in the evening when K. arrived.

1926 166 ed.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

1899 2049 ed.
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

1846 298 ed.