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The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

1611 804 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

1876 2622 ed.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

Les habitants de Little Hangleton l’appelaient toujours la maison des « Jeux du sort », même s’il y avait de nombreuses ...

2000 242 ed.
Cat Among the Pigeons
Cat Among the Pigeons

by Agatha Christie

ABOUT two months earlier than the first day of the summer term at Meadowbank, certain events had taken place which were ...

1959 96 ed.
The Art of War
The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

1900 1542 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

1600 1505 ed.
The golden bough
The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

1890 371 ed.
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

THE weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...

1896 990 ed.
The natural
The natural

by Bernard Malamud, SparkNotes

Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail and hold the spurting flame in his cupp...

1952 75 ed.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...

2005 63 ed.
Night Shift
Night Shift

by Stephen King

FOR ME, the terrorthe real terror, as opposed to whatever demons and boogeys which might have been living in my own min...

1960 65 ed.
Harriet the Spy
Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.

1960 63 ed.
The White Company
The White Company

by Arthur Conan Doyle

THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing.

1890 463 ed.
Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

"SENT down for indecent behavior, eh?"

1928 97 ed.
Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.

1990 48 ed.
Promise Me
Promise Me

by Harlan Coben

The missing girl-there had been unceasing news reports, always flashing to that achingly ordinary school portrait of the...

2006 42 ed.