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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Анна Каренина
by Лев Толстой
KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
Aeneis
by Publius Vergilius Maro
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...
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...
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
Satyricon
by Petronius
IT has been so long since I promised you the story of my adventures, that I have decided to make good my word to-day; an...
Evgeniĭ Onegin
by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
In its final form (1837 edn.) Pushkin's novel in verse (Evgeniy Onegin, roman v stihah) consists of 5541 lines, all of w...
Carmina
by Horace
Your flanks are scorched by Spanish ropes, your legs by iron chains, and though you strut about in pride of wealth, good...
Georgica
by Publius Vergilius Maro
Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...
Satirae
by Horace
The individual poems comprising each book of the Satires are not arranged chronologically in the order of their composit...
Elegiae
by Sextus Propertius, Albius Tibullus
CYNTHIA was the first To capture with her eyes my pitiable self: Till then I was free from desire's contagion.
