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American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
AFTER dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat: he had said, "I'll be with you at latest by ten,...
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.
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...
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...
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike.
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
part 1 They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up be...
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
IN MY JOURNEY through the wilderness of this world there came a time when I found myself caged up in a very dreary dunge...
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.
The Ugly American
by William J. Lederer, Eugene Burdick
The Honorable Louis Sears, American Ambassador to Sarkhan, was angry.
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.