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by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

1981 198 ed.
The Black Cat
The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

1914 122 ed.
Les Robots
Les Robots

by Isaac Asimov

I LOOKED AT MY NOTES AND I DIDN'T LIKE THEM.

1950 98 ed.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

1956 113 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.
Dubliners
Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

1914 996 ed.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.

1937 460 ed.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

1822 2209 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.
Utopia
Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

1518 198 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 Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring

by J.R.R. Tolkien

CE livre traite dans une large mesure des Hobbits, et Ie lecteur découvrira dans ses pages une bonne part de leur caract...

1954 297 ed.
The Clocks
The Clocks

by Agatha Christie

TO use police terms: at 2:59 P.M. on September 9th.

1963 99 ed.
Белые ночи
Белые ночи

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

C'était une nuit de conte, ami lecteur, une de ces nuits qui ne peuvent guère survenir que dans notre jeunesse.

1848 124 ed.
Vom Kriege
Vom Kriege

by Carl von Clausewitz

Despite its comprehensiveness, systematic approach, and precise style, On War is not a finished work.

1835 194 ed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

1892 1132 ed.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

1656 1226 ed.