Found 715 results for "Old age in fiction"
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.
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
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...
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"
The Railway Children
by Edith Nesbit
The beginning of things - They were not railway children at the beginning...
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.
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
Смерть Ивана Ильича
by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs
In the large building housing the Law Courts, during a recess in the Melvinsky proceedings, members of the court and the...
La père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
