Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

The education of a gardener

by Russell Page, Russell Page

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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 Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Hamlet

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 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...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...