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.

Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

IT was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

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...

The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

I RETURNED from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

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 Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...