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The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
THE FIRST SOUND in the mornings was the clumping of the mill-girls' clogs down the cobbled street.
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.
La père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nu...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...
Les Liaisons dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
LETTER I: Cécile de Volanges to Sophie Carnay at the Ursuline Convent of ----. You see, my dear Sophie, I am keeping my ...
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming fr...
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
THE STORY. Dante finds that he has strayed from the right road and is lost in a Dark Wood.
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
Alive!
by Piers Paul Read
Uruguay, one of the smallest countries on the South American continent, was founded on the eastern bank of the River Pla...
The Source of Magic
by Piers Anthony
The magic-sniffer ambled toward Bink, its long limber snout snuffling industriously.
On a pale horse
by Piers Anthony
"Death," the proprietor said clearly, showing the stone.