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Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
La casa de los espíritus
by Isabel Allende
Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía.
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.
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975
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...
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara n'était pas d'une beauté classique, mais les hommes ne s'en apercevaient guere quand, å l'exemple des ju...
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba...
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...