Lust for Life

by Irving Stone

VICE-ADMIRAL JOHANNES VAN GOGH, highest ranking officer in the Dutch Navy, stood on the stoep of his roomy, rent-free re...

The Stones of Venice

by John Ruskin

I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...

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...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...

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

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

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 ...

Henry Moore

by David Sylvester, Henry Moore

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.