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The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

1977 149 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 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.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
The Return of the King
The Return of the King

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak.

1950 273 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.

1937 460 ed.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

1478 722 ed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Hari yang dingin dan cerah di bulan April, dan jam-jam berdentang tiga belas kali.

1949 534 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

1678 683 ed.
Lolita
Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

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

1777 228 ed.
Ab urbe condita
Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

1481 558 ed.
Satyricon
Satyricon

by Petronius

IT has been so long since I promised you the story of my adventures, that I have decided to make good my word to-day; an...

1575 309 ed.
The White Company
The White Company

by Arthur Conan Doyle

THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing.

1890 463 ed.
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep

by Stephen King, José Óscar Hernández Sendin

2013 52 ed.
The Door in the Wall
The Door in the Wall

by Marguerite de Angeli, Paul Champanier

ROBIN drew the coverlet close about his head and turned his face to the wall.

1949 33 ed.
MAIN STREET
MAIN STREET

by Sinclair Lewis

ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower b...

1634 274 ed.
Baudolino
Baudolino

by Umberto Eco

Rattisbon Anno Domini mense decembri mclv Cronicle of Baudolino of the fammily of Aulario.

2000 54 ed.