Classic fiction: general and literary

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville.

"The Power of Words" is a philosophical dialogue written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words).

The final volume of Remembrance of Things Past chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M.

Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households.

Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'.

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

"The Power of Words" is a philosophical dialogue written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy.

Moumou: L'histoire de Gerasime, le geant muet.

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905.

The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians.

A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man.

X-ing a Paragrab was written in the year 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career.

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.

The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland.

Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story, Mellonta Tauta, was originally published in 1849.

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"Three Sundays in a Week" depicts a grumpy Uncle Rumgudgeon who refuses to grant his nephew Bobby permission to marry his daughter and, therefore, inherit a portion of Rumgudgeon's estate.

Downloadin EPUB format, also available for Kindle or in PDFA novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland.

Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.

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The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris.

Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev, is a Russian fiction classic and a nostalgic story of a man in his late twenties, torn between his much loved but barbaric homeland and a comfortable but unsatisfactory life in Europe.

This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection.

"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Contenu de la collection:À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDUDu côté de chez Swann (1913)À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919)Le côté de Guermantes (1920–21)Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921–22)La prisonnière (1923)Albertine disparue (La fugitive) (1925)Le temps retrouvé (1927)Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)John Ruskin: La bible d'Amiens, translated by Proust (1904)John Ruskin: Sésame et les lys, translated by Proust (1906)Pastiches et mélanges (1919)Chroniques (1927)Jean Santeuil (1952, 1971) (see update v.

Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876.

A quelques pas devant moi, sur une pelouse bordee de framboisiers verts, se tenait une jeune fille, grande et elancee, vetue d'une robe rose a raies et coiffee d'un petit fichu blanc ; quatre jeunes gens faisaient cercle autour d'elle, et elle les frappait au front, a tour de role, avec une de ces fleurs grises dont le nom m'echappe, mais que les enfants connaissent bien : elles forment de petits sachets qui eclatent avec bruit quand on leur fait heurter quelque chose de dur.

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives.

Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914.

Apres un bonheur incomplet, mensonger, qu'il vecut avec sa femme, et la separation douloureuse qui s'en suivit, Lavretzky apprend la mort de celle-ci.

"To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short poem attributed to William Shakespeare.

Las Novelas ejemplares son una serie de novelas cortas que Miguel de Cervantes escribio entre 1590 y 1612, y que despues acabaria publicando en 1613 en una coleccion editada en Madrid por Juan de la Cuesta, dada la gran acogida que obtuvo con la primera parte del Quijote.

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box.

The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale.

"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" introduces us to this respected English physician and naturalist, whose love of animals and growing household menagerie leads to him learning the secret of speaking to animals from his parrot Polynesia, and then taking up veterinary practice.

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H.

Der reiche englische Gentleman Phileas Fogg, geradezu Exzentriker in Sachen Punktlichkeit und taglichen Gewohnheiten und zudem ein leidenschaftlicher Whist-Spieler, wettet mit anderen Mitgliedern des Reform Club in London, dass es ihm gelingen werde, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen.

First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.

This collection contains the following classic Russian novels:- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Mother by Maxim Gorky

Un etudiant russe trouve un soir chez lui, cache, l'assassin d'un ministre de la repression tsariste survenue des heures plus tot.

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.

Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591.