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De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
War and Peace
by Лев Толстой
»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
Es zieht mich stets dorthin zurück, wo ich einmal gelebt habe, zu den Häusern, der Gegend.
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...
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.