Beggar's opera

by John Gay

Fables

by John Gay

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Third Girl

by Agatha Christie

HERCULE Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table.

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...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Hong lou meng

by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin., (qing) Cao, xue qin

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]