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Идиот
Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

1874 436 ed.
Il Paradiso
Il Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

THE GLORY of the All-Mover penetrates through the universe and reglows in one part more, and in another less.

1595 291 ed.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

1925 476 ed.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

1890 151 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

1859 465 ed.
Der Proceß
Der Proceß

by Franz Kafka

SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...

1825 783 ed.
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Richest Man in Babylon

by George S. Clason

Bansir, the chariot builder of Babylon, was thoroughly discouraged.

1926 258 ed.
George's Marvelous Medicine
George's Marvelous Medicine

by Roald Dahl

'I'm going shopping in the village,' George's mother said to George on Saturday morning.

1981 99 ed.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

1900 344 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.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

1844 1104 ed.
Der Steppenwolf
Der Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

THE DAY HAD GONE BY JUST AS DAYS GO BY.

1927 239 ed.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roo...

1950 138 ed.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with i...

1954 191 ed.
L’étranger
L’étranger

by Albert Camus

Vandaag is moeder gestorven.

1942 468 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.
A Murder Is Announced
A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...

1950 126 ed.
Candide
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...

1746 1079 ed.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...

1800 977 ed.
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

1840 312 ed.