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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
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 History of Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
AN author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
Castle Rackrent
by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth
HAVING out of friendship for the family, upon whose estate, praised be Heaven!
Le rire; essai sur la signification du comique
by Henri Bergson, Cloudesley Brereton
What does laughter mean?