Die Traumdeutung

by Sigmund Freud

In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret ...

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

La Peste

by Albert Camus

Les curieux évènements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produit en 194., à Oran.

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

Der Proceß

by Franz Kafka

SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...

Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late in the evening when K. arrived.

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...

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Le plaisir d'incendier !

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...

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...

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Les confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen.