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The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...
The Book of Tea
by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
Mémoires
by Giacomo Casanova
"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.
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...
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
ON the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Phara...
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate S...
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
Louisa May Alcott
by Louisa May Alcott
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is universally recognized as the greatest and most popular story-teller for children in her generation...
Doce cuentos peregrinos
by Gabriel García Márquez
HE SAT ON a wooden bench under the yellow leaves in the deserted park, contemplating the dusty swans with both his hands...
Bushidō
by Inazo Nitobe, Stefano Daniel
CHIVALRY is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up s...
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...
Lettres persanes
by Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, John Davidson
Of all great French authors perhaps Montesquieu is the least known in this country.