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by Evelyn Waugh
When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming i...
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
ONE WARM NIGHT four children stood in front of a bakery.
by Ann Radcliffe
On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St. A...
by S. E. Hinton, Jim Fyfe
WHEN I STEPPED out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul...
by Lemony Snicket
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
by Ludwig Bemelmans
En una vieja casa de Paris toda cubierta de viñas viven doce ninas en dos perfectas filas.
by Louisa May Alcott
ROSE sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she was ...
by Mark Twain
"Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!"
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Her name was Lana, and she came to the ranch house like the doe-eyed orphan she was, cradled in the boss's arms minutes ...
by Alex Haley
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a m...
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleas...
by Orhan Pamuk, Orhan Pamuk
Ein Toter bin ich nun, eine Leiche auf dem Grund eines Brunnens.
by Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Roosevelt Richards
"Oh, he is Jamie, the youngest brother of Archibald, and the pet of the whole family.
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...