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The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Along time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babi...
La casa de los espíritus
by Isabel Allende
Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía.
Записки изъ подполья
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...
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 ...
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
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...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
by Charles Darwin
WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of ...
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
The Richest Man in Babylon
by George S. Clason
Bansir, the chariot builder of Babylon, was thoroughly discouraged.
Dead Man's Folly
by Agatha Christie
IT was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...