The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

The Iron Heel

by Jack London

The soft summer wind stirs the redwoods, and Wild-Water ripples sweet cadences over its mossy stones.

Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

En este libro subyacen muchas cuestiones que, estudiadas con paciencia, pueden mostrar el extraño significado de ser neg...

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...

His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Ich denke...« sagte ich."

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

A Study in Scarlet

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...