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The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
by Ian Fleming
It was one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end.
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
The Man Who Was Thursday
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
The master key system in twenty-four parts with questionnair...
by Charles F. Haanel, Ruth L. Miller
It is my privilege to enclose herewith Week One of The Master Key System.
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, bariptity, bariptity-Good. His dad had the pickup going."
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high...
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...
Notre Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...