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The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

1903 1700 ed.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen.

1889 255 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
Wild Swans
Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...

1989 70 ed.
As You Like It
As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

1734 467 ed.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

1899 552 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

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.

1813 4038 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

1609 646 ed.
Wild seed
Wild seed

by Octavia E. Butler

Doro discovered the woman by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages.

1980 18 ed.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 ed.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

1920 301 ed.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance

by Oscar Wilde

Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton.

1893 176 ed.
She
She

by H. Rider Haggard

There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...

1886 506 ed.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.

1847 558 ed.
The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss, Marc Simonetti

It was night again.

2007 76 ed.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea ...

1997 73 ed.
These Happy Golden Years
These Happy Golden Years

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

"I will, Pa" Laura said earnestly.

1943 54 ed.