Found 26,615 results for "Fiction, romance, contemporary"
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
Le rouge et le noir
by Stendhal
The little town of Verrieres is one of the prettiest in Franche-Comte.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
Evelina
by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor
A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to ...
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate S...
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
THE WEATHER DOOR OF THE SMOKING-ROOM HAD BEEN LEFT open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...
Metamorphoses
by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...
El filibusterismo
by José Rizal
One December morning the steamship TABO was arduously sailing upstream through the winding course of the Pasig, carrying...
Loving
by Danielle Steel
THE air was so still in the brilliant summer sun that you could hear the birds, and every sound for miles, as Sarah sat ...
De amor y de sombra
by Isabel Allende
"El primer dia de sol evaporo la humedad acumulada en la tierra por los meses de invierno y calento los fragiles huesos ...
Vingt ans apres̀
by Alexandre Dumas
IN a room of the Palais-Cardinal which we already know, near a table with silver gilt corners, loaded with papers and bo...
It Ends With Us
by Colleen Hoover
Aqui sentada, com uma perna de cada lado do parapeito, a olhar para baixo, 12 andares acima das ruas de Boston, não cons...