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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

1920 1176 ed.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

1861 386 ed.
The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

1800 177 ed.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 ed.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

1877 244 ed.
Tao te Ching
Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

1842 648 ed.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mount...

1929 181 ed.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.

1889 788 ed.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

Estaba tirado boca abajo, sobre una capa de agujas de pino color castaño, con la barbilla apoyada en los brazos cruzados...

1940 185 ed.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

1960 212 ed.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New Yo...

1948 159 ed.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

problems. However, the last seven years have been years of droughtless beneficence.

1965 117 ed.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

1920 1091 ed.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

1467 277 ed.
The Pearl
The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

Kino awakened in the near dark.

1945 143 ed.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

1880 1988 ed.
Emma
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 ...

1815 2263 ed.
Carrie
Carrie

by Stephen King

Extrait de l'hebdomadaire Enterprise, de Westover (Me), 19 aoüt 1966:

1974 117 ed.