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His Last Bow [8 stories]
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.

1917 583 ed.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

457 ed.
Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

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

1880 312 ed.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

1933 119 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

1611 804 ed.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
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...

1900 118 ed.
The Wealth of Nations
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 ...

1776 123 ed.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN WE COMPARE the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of th...

1859 259 ed.
Aeneis
Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

1710 456 ed.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

1859 651 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

1564 323 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

1800 2406 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.
Heidi
Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

The pretty little Swiss town of Mavenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range, whose grim rugged peaks tower high above...

1885 180 ed.
The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

Die kleinen Jungen waren die ersten, die zum Richtplatz kamen.

1989 110 ed.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

1855 639 ed.
Winter's Tale
Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

Two courtiers exchange compliments, speaking in an elegant, formal prose.

1735 494 ed.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

1791 279 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 ed.