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George's Marvelous Medicine
George's Marvelous Medicine

by Roald Dahl

'I'm going shopping in the village,' George's mother said to George on Saturday morning.

1981 99 ed.
Crooked House
Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.

1949 113 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

1883 431 ed.
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1887 1447 ed.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New Yo...

1948 159 ed.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1900 118 ed.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

1800 327 ed.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

1875 373 ed.
कामसूत्र
कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

1883 381 ed.
La Peste
La Peste

by Albert Camus

The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-at Oran.

1942 280 ed.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...

1939 321 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

1611 804 ed.
L’étranger
L’étranger

by Albert Camus

Maman died today.

1942 468 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.
The golden bough
The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

1890 371 ed.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

1900 476 ed.