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The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

1892 538 ed.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

563 ed.
Преступление и наказание
Преступление и наказание

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

В начале июля, в чрезвычайно жаркое время, под вечер, один молодой человек вышел из своей каморки, которую нанимал от жи...

1866 1178 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.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

part 1 They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up be...

1962 102 ed.
Мастер и Маргарита
Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

1966 234 ed.
Ulysses
Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

1914 612 ed.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

A Few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

1937 292 ed.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

1859 651 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

1840 312 ed.
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.

1966 79 ed.
The Collector
The Collector

by John Fowles

WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right o...

1963 63 ed.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

It goes a long way back, some twenty years.

1952 59 ed.
Gerald's Game
Gerald's Game

by Stephen King

Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house.

1992 56 ed.
Hannibal
Hannibal

by Thomas Harris

CLARICE STARLING'S MUSTANG boomed up the entrance ramp at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Massachusetts A...

1999 48 ed.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

by Robert C. O'Brien, Zena Bernstein

Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named...

1970 48 ed.