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American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I SHALL TURN OUT TO BE THE HERO OF MY own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner
IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...
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...
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all.
Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise with the Chuzzlewit Family without ...
The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth von Arnim
It began in a woman's club in London on a February afternoon-an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon-when Mrs. ...
La chartreuse de Parme
by Stendhal
On May 15, 1796, General Bonaparte entered Milan at the head of that young army which had lately crossed the Lodi bridge...
I promessi sposi
by Alessandro Manzoni
"ONE arm of Lake Como turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, which cut it up into a series of ...
Pictures from Italy
by Charles Dickens
ON a fine Sunday morning in the Midsummer time and weather of eighteen hundred and forty-four, it was, my good friend, w...
Doce cuentos peregrinos
by Gabriel García Márquez
HE SAT ON a wooden bench under the yellow leaves in the deserted park, contemplating the dusty swans with both his hands...
Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life.