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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.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

1813 4038 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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...

1876 2622 ed.
Meditations
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

1626 642 ed.
Os Lusíadas
Os Lusíadas

by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho

As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...

1572 367 ed.
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

I wish Giovanni would kiss me.

2001 64 ed.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens

AS no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without ...

1800 290 ed.
Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʾib al-asfār
Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʾib al-asfār

by Ibn Batuta, A. R. Gibb

Ibn Battuta, who was born at Tangier in North Africa in 1304 and died not far from there some sixty-five years later, wa...

1829 45 ed.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.

1988 48 ed.
From Heaven Lake
From Heaven Lake

by Vikram Seth

The flies have entered the bus, and their buzzing adds to he overwhelming sense of heat.

1983 13 ed.
La cité de la joie
La cité de la joie

by Dominique Lapierre

HE HAD THE APPEARANCE of a Mogul warrior: thick shock of curly hair, sideburns which met the drooping curve of his musta...

1985 40 ed.