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by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
IN the remoter parts of Siberia, in the midst of the steppes, the mountains, or the pathless forests, lie scattered a fe...
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
by Charles Dickens
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
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 Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
by Winston S. Churchill
AFTER the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in t...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...
by Arthur Miller
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
At five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded, as usual, by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up nea...
by Ian McEwan
THE PLAY-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding s...
by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
In its final form (1837 edn.) Pushkin's novel in verse (Evgeniy Onegin, roman v stihah) consists of 5541 lines, all of w...
by John Grisham
IN THE WANING HOURS OF A PRESIDENCY THAT WAS DESTINED TO arouse less interest from historians than any since perhaps tha...
by John Grisham
After decades of patient mismanagement and loving neglect, The Ford County Times went bankrupt in 1970.
by Edgar Wallace
ON the fourteenth day of August, 190-, a tiny paragraph appeared at the foot of an unimportant page in London's most sob...
by Sidney Sheldon
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright negligee to wear so that the blood would n...