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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
Se questo è un uomo
Se questo è un uomo

by Primo Levi

I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.

1947 112 ed.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

problems. However, the last seven years have been years of droughtless beneficence.

1965 117 ed.
Catch-22
Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

1961 134 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

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...

1800 2059 ed.
The Caine mutiny
The Caine mutiny

by Herman Wouk

He was of medium height, somewhat chubby, and good looking, with curly red hair and an innocent, gay face, more remarkab...

1951 88 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

1603 2377 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

1800 2406 ed.
Im Westen nichts Neues
Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

1928 224 ed.
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.

1959 103 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

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...

1686 2420 ed.
East of Eden
East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California.

1952 104 ed.
A town like Alice
A town like Alice

by Nevil Shute

JAMES MACFADDEN died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point to Point.

1950 112 ed.
Terre des hommes
Terre des hommes

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latecoere Company, the predecessors of Aeropostale (now Air Franc...

1936 124 ed.
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?

1970 88 ed.
Der Vorleser
Der Vorleser

by Bernhard Schlink

WHEN I was fifteen, I got hepatitis.

1995 89 ed.