Hong lou meng

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

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

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.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Physics

by Aristotle

IN all disciplines in which there is systematic knowledge of things with principles, causes, or elements, it arises from...

Castillo interior o las moradas

by Teresa of Avila, F. Benedict Zimmerman

SAINT TERESA began to write the Interior Castle on June 2, 1577, Trinity Sunday, and completed it on the eve of St. Andr...

Green Mansions

by W. H. Hudson, William Henry Hudson

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

The Red House Mystery

by A. A. Milne

In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta.

Mansion for My Love

by Robyn Donald

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

NIGHTMARE ABBEY, a venerable family mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on ...

Mistress of Mellyn

by Eleanor Burford

The tower treasure

by Franklin W. Dixon

"LOOK! A periscope!" Joe Hardy shouted.

Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

The Prussian Commander, Major Graf von Farlsberg, was finishing the reading of his mail, comfortably seated in a large t...

Thornyhold

by Mary Stewart

Trixie Belden and the secret of the mansion

by Julie Campbell

"Oh, Moms," Trixie moaned, running her hands through her short, sandy curls.

Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal

by Barbara Park

Headlong Hall

by Thomas Love Peacock

THE AMBIGUOUS light of a December morning, peeping through the windows of the Holyhead mail, dispelled the soft visions ...