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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

IN the reign of a certain Emperor, whose name is unknown to us, there was, among the Niogo and Koyi of the Imperial Cour...

1900 121 ed.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

A carriage has just come to the door and Mamma has sent to tell me to come to her room at once.

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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

1900 515 ed.
War and Peace
War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.

1864 642 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 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.
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.
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 American
The American

by Henry James, Peter Collister

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

1877 126 ed.