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The Giver
The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

1993 106 ed.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

1933 119 ed.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

1976 107 ed.
Ab urbe condita
Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

1481 558 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.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

2000 114 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 foreign...

1686 2420 ed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

1890 3012 ed.
The Art of War
The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

1900 1542 ed.
Vol de nuit
Vol de nuit

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

a scene that would never change. This tiny village, he could gladly have made friends with it; the choice once made, a m...

1931 128 ed.
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

1977 149 ed.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

1920 301 ed.
Howards End
Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

1910 498 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 Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

1985 164 ed.
Il nome della rosa
Il nome della rosa

by Umberto Eco

ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en ...

1980 151 ed.
A Study of History
A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...

1900 119 ed.