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Daddy-Long-Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and ...

1912 299 ed.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig t...

1922 206 ed.
Howards End
Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

1910 498 ed.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

1800 480 ed.
White Fang
White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

1905 387 ed.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

1900 344 ed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

1818 765 ed.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Selden paused in surprise.

1905 694 ed.
La Poetica
La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

1479 498 ed.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

1920 301 ed.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

1877 244 ed.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

1899 552 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 foreign...

1686 2420 ed.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

1915 954 ed.
The Jungle
The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

1707 673 ed.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

1920 495 ed.
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...

1831 265 ed.