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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 Color Purple
The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

1976 107 ed.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

1960 212 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 Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.

1893 455 ed.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.

1954 96 ed.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor

A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to ...

1800 763 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.
Black Boy
Black Boy

by Richard Wright

One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my...

1945 64 ed.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

alone to the jewelry store where he worked as a silverware engraver. In the late afternoon the friends would meet again.

1940 64 ed.
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

To the irreverent-and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?-there is something v...

1898 129 ed.
Evgeniĭ Onegin
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...

1833 102 ed.
A good man is hard to find
A good man is hard to find

by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff

silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

1955 31 ed.
Cane
Cane

by Jean Toomer

Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern...

1923 61 ed.
The slave community
The slave community

by John W. Blassingame, John W. Blassingame

The chains of the American Negro's captivity were forged in Africa.

1972 7 ed.
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small city of Tarleton, Georgia.

1922 124 ed.
The school for scandal, 1780
The school for scandal, 1780

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A school for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you,

1778 164 ed.