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The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

1920 301 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

1813 4038 ed.
Die Blechtrommel
Die Blechtrommel

by Günter Grass

GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a pe...

1959 111 ed.
La casa de los espíritus
La casa de los espíritus

by Isabel Allende

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía.

1982 116 ed.
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
El amor en los tiempos del cólera

by Gabriel García Márquez

Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados.

1985 127 ed.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

563 ed.
Доктор Живаго
Доктор Живаго

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

1957 176 ed.
Der Steppenwolf
Der Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

The day had gone by just as days go by.

1927 239 ed.
Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.

1937 187 ed.
Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara n'était pas d'une beauté classique, mais les hommes ne s'en apercevaient guere quand, å l'exemple des ju...

1936 244 ed.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

1920 1176 ed.
Howards End
Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

1910 498 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

1800 2406 ed.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mount...

1929 181 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 Secret Agent
The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

1907 335 ed.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill
Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...

1749 283 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

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

1895 1146 ed.