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Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

by Albert Einstein

In your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid's geometry, and yo...

1917 102 ed.
Rebecca
Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

LAST NIGHT I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

1938 200 ed.
Matilda
Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

1988 149 ed.
Book of common prayer
Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

1537 545 ed.
Babbitt
Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

1922 451 ed.
The Enchanted Castle
The Enchanted Castle

by Edith Nesbit

There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...

1907 478 ed.
Gitanjali (song offerings)
Gitanjali (song offerings)

by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.

1910 217 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.
Poirot investigates
Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.

1924 216 ed.
Lolita
Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

1777 228 ed.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

1920 1091 ed.
Lilith
Lilith

by George MacDonald

I had just finished my studies at Oxford, and was taking a brief holiday from work before assuming definitely the manage...

1895 480 ed.
The Lost World
The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

1900 747 ed.
Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
The Sea Fairies
The Sea Fairies

by L. Frank Baum

"Nobody," said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale."

1911 528 ed.
The Club of Queer Trades
The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

1900 521 ed.
Игрокъ
Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At last I was back after my two weeks' absence.

1866 412 ed.
Pollyanna
Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

With a frown Miss Polly folded the letter and tucked it into its envelope.

1912 552 ed.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

1877 107 ed.