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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...
by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
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...
by Edith Nesbit
The beginning of things - They were not railway children at the beginning...
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
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 ...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
by Marcel Proust
Yellow screen. Sound of a garden gate bell.
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Platero is so little, so hairy, smooth, and so soft to the touch that you might say he is made of puffy cotton, all ligh...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...