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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.
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
Анна Каренина
by Лев Толстой
KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Groth
MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être da...
Voskresenīe
by Лев Толстой
THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...
Evelina
by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...
À la recherche du temps perdu
by Marcel Proust
Yellow screen. Sound of a garden gate bell.
The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith
The lunch hour in the co-workers' cafeteria at Frankenberg's had reached its peak.
The Warden
by Anthony Trollope
THE Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of - ; let us cal...
Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Flori...
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in w...
