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Heart of Darkness
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.

1899 553 ed.
Преступление и наказание
Преступление и наказание

by Fiódor Dostoievski

ON AN EXCEPTIONALLY hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walk...

1866 1179 ed.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Jenseits von Gut und Böse

by Friedrich Nietzsche

1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosop...

1885 415 ed.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter Sampson and Gregory with swords and bucklers of the house of Capulet.]

1597 985 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
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...

1800 2425 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT: I thought the king favored the Duke of Albany over the Duke of Cornwall.

1608 1614 ed.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

by Thomas Carlyle

A PROVERB says, "The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built."

1800 46 ed.
The disinherited mind
The disinherited mind

by Erich Heller

'1794-here at last was a year which I felt was going to compensate me by some diverting activities, some inspiration, so...

1952 18 ed.
Das Kapital
Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an 'immense collection of commodi...

1867 189 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

1600 1594 ed.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...

1609 992 ed.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

1898 563 ed.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...

1734 949 ed.