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The well of loneliness
The well of loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

NOT VERY FAR FROM Upton-on-Severn - between it, in fact, and the Malvern Hills - stands the country seat of the Gordons ...

1928 85 ed.
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White

WHERE'S Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

1952 149 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 foreig...

1686 2420 ed.
Study Guide
Study Guide

by SuperSummary

2017 618 ed.
Perfume
Perfume

by Patrick Süskind

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that k...

1985 105 ed.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

1961 147 ed.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

1911 1594 ed.
Le petit prince
Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ALS ICH SECHS Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch uber den Urwald, das ,,Erlebte Geschichten" hei , ein prachtig...

1943 688 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

1854 1138 ed.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Rivera

THE COLONEL took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left.

1961 86 ed.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.

1980 69 ed.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

alone to the jewelry store where he worked as a silverware engraver. In the late afternoon the friends would meet again.

1940 64 ed.
The Willows
The Willows

by Algernon Blackwood

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desola...

2002 280 ed.
Otoño Del Patriarca
Otoño Del Patriarca

by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and...

1973 78 ed.
The Art of Being Alone
The Art of Being Alone

by Renuka Gavrani

2023 1 ed.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey...

1990 36 ed.
Millions of cats
Millions of cats

by Wanda Gág

Once upon a time there was a very old man and a very old woman.

1928 34 ed.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness

by Dorothy Day

WHEN we were little children, my brothers and sister and I, we used to sit around the supper table at night and listen t...

1952 20 ed.
City of Night
City of Night

by John Rechy

LATER I WOULD THINK OF AMERICA as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard-juk...

1963 31 ed.