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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

1800 2406 ed.
Se questo è un uomo
Se questo è un uomo

by Primo Levi

I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.

1947 112 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

1800 2059 ed.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Il giorno più caldo dell’estate – almeno fino a quel momento – volgeva al termine e un silenzio sonnacchioso gravava sul...

2003 247 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.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1900 118 ed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

1900 1308 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

1862 526 ed.
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?

1970 88 ed.
The Crucible
The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...

1953 83 ed.
A town like Alice
A town like Alice

by Nevil Shute

JAMES MACFADDEN died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point to Point.

1950 112 ed.
Один день Ивана Денисовича
Один день Ивана Денисовича

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

At five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded, as usual, by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up nea...

1960 129 ed.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

Este relato es sobre un hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol.

2003 61 ed.
Different Seasons
Different Seasons

by Stephen King

There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess-I'm the guy who can get it for you.

1982 61 ed.
Elric of Melniboné
Elric of Melniboné

by Michael Moorcock

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white.

1972 41 ed.
La Nuit
La Nuit

by Elie Wiesel

They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.

1955 59 ed.
Xenocide
Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

<Today one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're stan...

1991 38 ed.
King Rat
King Rat

by James Clavell

"I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt."

1950 49 ed.