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La père Goriot
La père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.

1800 439 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

1813 4038 ed.
King Lear
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 ...

1608 1614 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
Wives and daughters
Wives and daughters

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Gaskell, Mrs., Ward, A. W.

To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood.

1866 100 ed.
Hong lou meng
Hong lou meng

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

1900 152 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
Ramona and Her Father
Ramona and Her Father

by Beverly Cleary

"Ye-e-ep!" sang Ramona Quimby one warm September afternoon, as she knelt on a chair at the kitchen table to make out her...

1977 56 ed.
Le avventure di Pinocchio
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

1883 431 ed.
Dubliners
Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

1914 996 ed.
Utopia
Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

1518 198 ed.
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

1846 298 ed.
Emma
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 ...

1815 2263 ed.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

1800 327 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

1611 804 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
Идиот
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...

1874 436 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.