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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...
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...
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...
Amerika
by Franz Kafka
As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...
The Age of Revolution
by Eric Hobsbawm
THE first thing to observe about the world of the 1780s is that it was at once much smaller and much larger than ours.
The Rainmaker
by John Grisham
MY DECISION to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
Night Shift
by Stephen King
FOR ME, the terrorthe real terror, as opposed to whatever demons and boogeys which might have been living in my own min...
Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-l...
Rich dad's guide to investing
by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
In 1973, I returned home from my tour of Vietnam.
Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
the mines and I never got through college, I am "baby," "honey," "blondie," and, most commonly, "girl." My first task is...