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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

1876 2622 ed.
Genji monogatari
Genji monogatari

by Murasaki Shikibu

Among the women in the palace of the Emperor was one named Kiritsubo (Paulownia Court), who though only an Imperial Conc...

1900 121 ed.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

LETTER I: Cécile de Volanges to Sophie Carnay at the Ursuline Convent of ----. You see, my dear Sophie, I am keeping my ...

1782 243 ed.
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Que Stendhal confessasse haver escrito um de seus livros para cem leitores, coisa é que admira e consterna.

1881 149 ed.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.

1893 455 ed.
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.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and common...

1922 644 ed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS IS ESSENTIALLY a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

1900 515 ed.
War and Peace
War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!

1864 642 ed.
Voskresenīe
Voskresenīe

by Лев Толстой

THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...

1899 250 ed.
Towards Zero
Towards Zero

by Agatha Christie

The man in the Hospital bed shifted his body slightly and stifled a groan.

1944 94 ed.
The well of loneliness
The well of loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

NOT VERY FAR FROM Upton-on-Severn - between it, in fact, and the Malvern Hills - stands the country seat of the Gordons ...

1928 85 ed.
The Nine Tailors
The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

plunged down the side of the dyke into the deep ditch beyond, where the black spikes of a thorn hedge stood bleak and un...

1934 69 ed.
Oblomov
Oblomov

by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

1913 92 ed.
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope

The title and opening of a poem often contain a kernel of the whole.

1714 125 ed.
The American
The American

by Henry James, Peter Collister

On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at ...

1877 126 ed.