The Richest Man in Babylon

by George S. Clason

Bansir, the chariot builder of Babylon, was thoroughly discouraged.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that ev...

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Chemistry

by Theodore L. Brown, H. Eugene Lemay

Max Ernst

by Max Ernst, Werner Spies

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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...

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.

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.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.