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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.
Анна Каренина
by Лев Толстой
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, James Joyce
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...
The Man Who Was Thursday
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
'CAMELOT - Camelot,' said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...
Emma
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...
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 ...
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.
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...
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.