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The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead

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...

1881 103 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

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.

1861 1489 ed.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

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...

1900 118 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

1862 526 ed.
The Second World War
The Second World War

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...

1948 203 ed.
The Sign of Four
The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

1889 961 ed.
Bill
Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

2002 720 ed.
The Crucible
The Crucible

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...

1953 83 ed.
Eldest
Eldest

by Christopher Paolini

1998 73 ed.
Один день Ивана Денисовича
Один день Ивана Денисовича

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...

1960 129 ed.
Atonement
Atonement

by Ian McEwan

THE PLAY-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding s...

2001 76 ed.
American Gods
American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Shadow had done three years in prison.

2001 72 ed.
Evgeniĭ Onegin
Evgeniĭ Onegin

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...

1833 102 ed.
The Broker
The Broker

by John Grisham

IN THE WANING HOURS OF A PRESIDENCY THAT WAS DESTINED TO arouse less interest from historians than any since perhaps tha...

2005 46 ed.
The Last Juror
The Last Juror

by John Grisham

After decades of patient mismanagement and loving neglect, The Ford County Times went bankrupt in 1970.

2003 38 ed.
Making Money
Making Money

by Terry Pratchett

Sie lagen im Dunkeln und wachten.

2007 30 ed.
The Four Just Men
The Four Just Men

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...

1905 177 ed.
If Tomorrow Comes
If Tomorrow Comes

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...

1984 22 ed.