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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

1776 222 ed.
Die Blechtrommel
Die Blechtrommel

by Günter Grass

GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a pe...

1959 111 ed.
Sult
Sult

by Knut Hamsun

All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania-that strange city no one escapes from until it h...

1890 154 ed.
Voskresenīe
Voskresenīe

by Лев Толстой

THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...

1899 250 ed.
Доктор Живаго
Доктор Живаго

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

1957 176 ed.
Lolita
Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

1777 228 ed.
The Godfather
The Godfather

by Mario Puzo

Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly...

1969 109 ed.
Белые ночи
Белые ночи

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

C'était une nuit de conte, ami lecteur, une de ces nuits qui ne peuvent guère survenir que dans notre jeunesse.

1848 124 ed.
El túnel
El túnel

by Ernesto Sabato

Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso está en el recuerdo...

1948 120 ed.
Rebecca
Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

1938 200 ed.
Das Schloß
Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late in the evening when K. arrived.

1926 166 ed.
Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

1880 312 ed.
Мастер и Маргарита
Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

1966 234 ed.
Идиот
Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

1874 436 ed.
Der Proceß
Der Proceß

by Franz Kafka

SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...

1825 783 ed.
Amerika
Amerika

by Franz Kafka

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...

1927 94 ed.
Бѣсы
Бѣсы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...

1871 171 ed.
Der Zauberberg
Der Zauberberg

by Thomas Mann

AN ORDINARY YOUNG MAN was on his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden.

1924 188 ed.