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Hong lou meng
Hong lou meng

by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin., (qing) Cao, xue qin

1900 152 ed.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 ed.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.

1937 460 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

1686 2420 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
Tao te Ching
Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

1842 648 ed.
Orlando
Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

1928 452 ed.
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

by Agatha Christie

Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.

1960 126 ed.
Tintenherz
Tintenherz

by Cornelia Funke

Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain.

2003 69 ed.
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore

by Luigi Pirandello

The play has neither acts nor scenes.

1900 110 ed.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt

by Henrik Ibsen

A slope of birch-trees near AASE's farm.

1867 111 ed.
The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde, Roxane Azimi

MY FATHER had a face that could stop a clock.

2001 32 ed.
Georgica
Georgica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...

1523 188 ed.
The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)
The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)

by Nancy Springer

I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO KNOW WHY my mother named me "Enola," which, backwards, spells alone.

2006 25 ed.