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Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...

1880 312 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.
Second Foundation
Second Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years.

1953 80 ed.
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

"Only those can understand us who ate from the same bowl with us"

1970 88 ed.
The Kreutzer sonata and other stories
The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

1887 150 ed.
Wild Swans
Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...

1989 70 ed.
I promessi sposi
I promessi sposi

by Alessandro Manzoni

"ONE arm of Lake Como turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, which cut it up into a series of ...

1800 161 ed.
Games People Play
Games People Play

by Eric Berne

OBSERVATION of spontaneous social activity, most productively carried out in certain kinds of psychotherapy groups, reve...

1964 57 ed.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt

by Henrik Ibsen

A slope of birch-trees near AASE's farm.

1867 111 ed.
Marcovaldo, ovvero Le stagioni in città
Marcovaldo, ovvero Le stagioni in città

by Italo Calvino

The wind, coming to the city from far away, brings it unusual gifts, noticed by only a few sensitive souls, such as hay-...

1958 45 ed.
Nectar in a sieve
Nectar in a sieve

by Kamala Markandaya

SOMETIMES at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil togeth...

1954 17 ed.
The Persian Boy
The Persian Boy

by Mary Renault

LEST ANYONE should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line i...

1972 50 ed.
Canne al vento
Canne al vento

by Grazia Deledda, Qem Classic

1913 110 ed.
Kushiel's dart
Kushiel's dart

by Jacqueline Carey

Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and s...

2001 12 ed.
Zapiski okhotnika
Zapiski okhotnika

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Anyone who has chanced to pass from the Bolhovsky district into the Zhizdrinsky district, must have been impressed by th...

1895 98 ed.
Ange Pitou
Ange Pitou

by Alexandre Dumas

ON the borders of Picardy and the province of Soissons, and on that part of the national territory which, under the name...

1851 85 ed.