Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White

WHERE'S Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

O Alquimista

by Paulo Coelho

El muchacho se llamaba Santiago.

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

Les Liaisons dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

LETTER I: Cécile de Volanges to Sophie Carnay at the Ursuline Convent of ----. You see, my dear Sophie, I am keeping my ...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

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...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

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...

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...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

A famished fox crept into a vineyard where ripe, luscious grapes were draped high upon arbors in a most tempting display...

Fables

by Arnold Lobel

A Crocodile became increasingly fond of the wallpaper in his bedroom.

Fables

by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs

ONE hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come, just at the same time, to quench their thirst in the stream of ...

Briefe an Milena

by Franz Kafka

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the leftgrip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

by Beatrix Potter, Colin Twinn

This is the story of Jemima Puddle-duck.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

by Robin S. Sharma

He collapsed right in the middle of a packed courtroom.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.