The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Anatomy

by Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter

THE entire skeleton in the adult consists of 200 distinct bones.

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

HERE IS Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner

IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

Rembrandt

by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Holm Bevers

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

The Regulators

by Stephen King

Summer's here.

Airport

by Arthur Hailey

At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with d...

Grace abounding to the chief of sinners

by John Bunyan

IN THIS MY RELATION of the merciful working of God upon my soul, it will not be amiss, if, in the first place, I do in a...

Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Winnie-the-Pooh / The House at Pooh Corner

by A. A. Milne

IF YOU happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan h...