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82 Works 802,217 Livros 10,412 Críticas 4.1
ObraAno
Short-Stories por L.A. Pittenger
2012
The Rabbit Novels, Volume One por John Updike
2003
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) por Alexander Pope
1993
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti por Christina Rossetti
1992
The Silence of the Lambs por Thomas Harris
1991
Um grito de longe por Muriel Spark
1988
Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-80 por Samuel Beckett
1984
The Big Typescript por Ludwig Wittgenstein
1983
My Father and Myself por J. R. Ackerley
1968
The lives of the artists (Penguin) por Giorgio Vasari
1965
Herzog por Saul Bellow
1964
Eugene Onegin por Alexander Pushkin
1964
Collected Poems, 1909–1962 por T. S. Eliot
1963
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) por Franz Kafka
1961
Plays (Penguin Classics): The Bear / The Cherry Orchard / Ivanov / A Jubilee / The Proposal / The Seagull / Three Sisters / Uncle Vania por Anton Chekhov
1959
Lolita por Vladimir Nabokov
1955
Selections from The Notebooks por Leonardo da Vinci
1952
Letters of John Keats (Oxford Letters & Memoirs) por John Keats
1952
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable por Samuel Beckett
1951
If This Is a Man por Primo Levi
1947
Poems of Andrew Marvell por Andrew Marvell
1943
The Flowers of Evil por Charles Baudelaire
1936
The Jeeves Omnibus: Carry on, Jeeves; The Inimitable Jeeves; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves por P. G. Wodehouse
1931
My Early Life: 1874-1904 por Winston S. Churchill
1930
Decline and Fall por Evelyn Waugh
1928
Ulysses por James Joyce
1922
Seven Men por Max Beerbohm
1919
Dubliners por James Joyce
1914
In Search of Lost Time por Marcel Proust
1913
The Wind in the Willows por Kenneth Grahame
1908
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth por William Wordsworth
1904
Essays of Schopenhauer por Arthur Schopenhauer
1902
The Diary of a Nobody por George Grossmith
1892
Stories por Anton Chekhov
1889
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde por Robert Louis Stevenson
1886
The Brothers Karamazov por Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880
Poems of Tennyson por Alfred Lord Tennyson
1880
Three Tales por Gustave Flaubert
1877
Anna Karenina por Leo Tolstoy
1875
Middlemarch por George Eliot
1871
War and Peace por Leo Tolstoy
1869
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland por Lewis Carroll
1865
Apologia pro Vita Sua por John Henry Newman
1864
Great Expectations por Charles Dickens
1861
The Book of Common Prayer
1860
Madame Bovary por Gustave Flaubert
1857
Bleak House por Charles Dickens
1852
The Scarlet Letter por Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850
David Copperfield por Charles Dickens
1850
Canti por Giacomo Leopardi
1845
The dead souls por Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
1842
A Hero of Our Time por Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
1840
Don Juan por Lord Byron
1826
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) por John Keats
1817
Pride and Prejudice por Jane Austen
1813
The Life of Samuel Johnson por James Boswell
1791
Reflections on the Revolution in France por Edmund Burke
1790
The Story of My Life por Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
1789
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire por Edward Gibbon
1788
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman por Laurence Sterne
1759
Gulliver's Travels por Jonathan Swift
1727
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works por Jonathan Swift
1704
Pensées por Blaise Pascal
1669
Paradise Lost por John Milton
1667
Maxims por François de La Rochefoucauld
1665
Leviathan por Thomas Hobbes
1651
The Anatomy of Melancholy por Robert Burton
1621
Don Quixote por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1605
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare por William Shakespeare
1589
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays por Michel de Montaigne
1580
Le Morte d'Arthur por Thomas Malory
1485
The Divine Comedy por Dante Alighieri
1308
The History of the Peloponnesian War por Thucydides
0400
Confessions por Saint Augustine
0397
The Meditations por Marcus Aurelius
0170
The Annals of Tacitus por P. Cornelius Tacitus
0117
The Odes of Horace por Horace
0023
The Canterbury Tales por Geoffrey Chaucer
0014
The Iliad / The Odyssey por Homer
0008
Holy Bible por Unknown
0001
Lost Illusions por Honoré de Balzac
-0001
Sherlock Holmes stories por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1969
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