Found 437 results for "Humorous stories, history and criticism"
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 ...
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.
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...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
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, ...
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...
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...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
The History of Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
AN author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who...
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
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...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
Мастер и Маргарита
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.
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...