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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas	Machado de Assis	"New translation of Machado's famous novel is for the most part faithful and readable. However, work has occasional odd errors and omissions, and fails to give sufficient attention to Machado's rhyth…	OL1003017W
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective…	OL1063588W
Novels (The Call of the Wild / White Fang)	Jack London	Two classic tales of dogs, one part wolf and one a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix that becomes leader of a wolf pack, as they have adventures in the Yukon wilderness with both humans and other ani…	OL144709W
Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen	Chris Baker,Geraldine McCaughrean,Hans Christian Andersen,T. Pym,Laura Barrett,Bagram Ibatoulline,Anna Award,Natacha Godeau,Yevgeniya Yeretskaya,Julia Whelan,Sanna Annukka,Daniela Terrazzini,Emilie Majarian,Patricia MacCarthy,Armada Press	After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him.	OL15049616W
Drácula	Bram Stoker,Carmen Gil,Núria Pradas,Danide	Drácula parte de la existencia de Vlad Tepes, un personaje histórico situado en la Rumania del siglo XV, y conocido por su heroicidad contra la invasión otomana, pero también por su crueldad. A parti…	OL16002442W
Ruth's Journey	Donald McCaig	Set against the backdrop of the American South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, this is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will - and a tale that will forever…	OL17074980W
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intri…	OL176045W
Emma	Alexander McCall Smith	"The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business an…	OL19351262W
The human comedy	Honoré de Balzac	"We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fictio…	OL19706841W
Difficult Loves	Italo Calvino	ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm	OL20207677W
Wind in the Willows	John Burningham,Kenneth Grahame	The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.	OL21183559W
Herman Melville	Herman Melville	"In addition to excerpts from one of the greatest American novels, Moby-Dick, this anthology presents the complete text of Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. The well-rounded survey of Melville's oeuv…	OL22320915W
Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral st…	OL228705W
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]	Arthur Conan Doyle	Contains: [Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze) [Adventure of the Yellow Face](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20571966W/Adventure_of_the_Yellow_Face) [Stock-Brok…	OL262463W
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]	Arthur Conan Doyle	Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_…	OL262554W
L'isola di Arturo	Elsa Morante	"On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, there lives a boy as innocent of sin and the great world as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away - we are never quite sure where. Black-clad w…	OL2883788W
Drums along the Mohawk	Walter D. Edmonds	Set during the American Revolutionary War, Drums Along the Mohawk chronicles the lives of the frontier settlers of the Mohawk Valley in New York. Although a fictional account, Edmonds did extensive…	OL2943572W
The horsecatcher	Mari Sandoz	Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.	OL3266656W
Die unsichtbare Wand	H. G. Adler	"Told in a ... stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the pa…	OL4411317W
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of t…	OL455305W