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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"

1872 750 ed.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.

1937 460 ed.
Ulysses
Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

1914 612 ed.
Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.

1937 187 ed.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

1877 244 ed.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roo...

1950 138 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
Rashomon and other stories
Rashomon and other stories

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

YES, SIR. Certainly, it was I who found the body.

1952 96 ed.
Dracula
Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

1897 736 ed.
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?

1929 303 ed.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.

1964 221 ed.
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.

1893 536 ed.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

1903 1700 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

1843 3198 ed.
Little Women
Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

1848 1888 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit
The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

1900 168 ed.