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Middlemarch
Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

1800 327 ed.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

1800 200 ed.
कामसूत्र
कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

1883 381 ed.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Rivera

THE COLONEL took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left.

1961 86 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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...

1876 2622 ed.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...

1800 392 ed.
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom S...

by Mark Twain

"Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!"

1922 68 ed.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between th...

1947 69 ed.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There was once a time, when New-England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs, than those threatened ones ...

1800 369 ed.
The American
The American

by Henry James, Peter Collister

On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at ...

1877 126 ed.
Mademoiselle Fifi
Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

The Prussian Commander, Major Graf von Farlsberg, was finishing the reading of his mail, comfortably seated in a large t...

1882 162 ed.
Bracebridge Hall
Bracebridge Hall

by Washington Irving

ON again taking pen in hand, I would fain make a few observations at the outset, by way of bespeaking a right understand...

1800 166 ed.
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq

by Washington Irving

I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners.

1819 351 ed.
American Film
American Film

by American Film Institute

1975 83 ed.
Praisesong for the widow
Praisesong for the widow

by Paule Marshall

With a strength born of the decision that had just come to her in the middle of the night, Avey Johnson forced the suitc...

1983 5 ed.
The Citadel
The Citadel

by A. J. Cronin

LATE one October afternoon in the year 1921, a shabby young man gazed with fixed intensity through the widow of a third-...

1937 36 ed.