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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
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.
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Groth
MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
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...
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...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
Преступление и наказание
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
No início de julho, ao entardecer, sob um calor intenso, um jovem saiu do cubículo que sublocava na travessa S.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
Le avventure di Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
White Fang
by Jack London
DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.
The Iron Heel
by Jack London
The soft summer wind stirs the redwoods, and Wild-Water ripples sweet cadences over its mossy stones.
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 ...
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.