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...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Laws, etc

by Great Britain.

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

LAST NIGHT I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

Dune

by Frank Herbert

In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

Me llamo Eva, que quiere decir vida, segun un libro que mi madre consulto para escoger mi nombre.

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...

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

O Alquimista

by Paulo Coelho

El muchacho se llamaba Santiago.

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.

Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

by Albert Einstein

IN your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid's geometry, and yo...

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

Il nome della rosa

by Umberto Eco

ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en ...

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less.

The Kybalion

by Three Initiates