Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en!

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Les Robots

by Isaac Asimov

I looked at my notes and I didn't like them.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Es zieht mich stets dorthin zurück, wo ich einmal gelebt habe, zu den Häusern, der Gegend.

The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

IT WAS NOT TONY LEMLICH'S HABIT TO SPEND TIME ON THE shooting set of one of the pictures he had written.

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...

The Clocks

by Agatha Christie

TO use police terms: at 2:59 P.M. on September 9th.

The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

Short Story Collections

by Alison Smith

Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

The pretty little Swiss town of Mavenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range, whose grim rugged peaks tower high above...

Love and Freindship

by Jane Austen

The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.