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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins, William Collins
THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
'THAT nigger going down the street,'said Dr Hasselbacher standing in the Wonder Bar, 'he reminds me of you, Mr Wormold.'
The Confidence Man
by Herman Melville
AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, a...
The Partner
by John Grisham
They found him in Ponta Porã, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the ...
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
by Jeffrey Archer
MAKING A MILLION legally has always been difficult.
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
AS no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without ...
The Brethren
by John Grisham
FOR THE WEEKLY DOCKET the court jester wore his standard garb of well-used and deeply faded maroon pajamas and lavender ...
The Lies of Locke Lamora
by Scott Lynch
At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thief-maker of Camorr paid a sudden a...
The Bride of Lammermoor
by Sir Walter Scott
FEW have been in my secret while I was compiling these narratives, nor is it probable that they will ever become public ...