Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

It was a beautiful summer day.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

Les Robots

by Isaac Asimov

I looked at my notes and I didn't like them.

Watership Down

by Richard Adams

The primroses were over.

Mercury and me

by Jim Hutton, Tim Wapshott

Native Son

by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated

BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

From a little after two weeks oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat ...

L'immoraliste

by André Gide

Alan Turing

by Andrew Hodges

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

by Stephen King

I waited and watched for seven years.

A Sand County Almanac

by Aldo Leopold

Each year, after the midwinter blizzards, there comes a night of thaw when the tinkle of dripping water is heard in the ...

The Eight Strokes of the Clock

by Maurice Leblanc

Hortence Daniel pushed her window ajar and whispered: "Are you there, Rossigny?"

Chilton's repair and tune-up guide

by The Nichols/Chilton Editors

Journal

by PlainSimpleBooks

Fantastic Fables

by Ambrose Bierce

South Wind - Norman Douglas

by Norman Douglas, Norman Douglas

THE bishop was feeling rather sea-sick.