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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

1800 2059 ed.
Beloved
Beloved

by Toni Morrison

124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom.

1987 107 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.
De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
On The Road
On The Road

by Jack Kerouac

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

1957 152 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.
Letters to a young poet
Letters to a young poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Your letter reached me just a few days ago.

1656 144 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.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

1200 6084 ed.
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...

1920 495 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.
The Jungle
The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

1707 673 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

1791 279 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

1686 2420 ed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

1949 534 ed.