The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a sw...

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

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...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

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

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter lived underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal go...

Essential Maths

by Sean McArdle

Surprised by Joy

by C. S. Lewis

I WAS BORN in the winter of 1898 at Belfast, the son of a solicitor and of a clergyman's daughter.

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

by Beatrix Potter, Colin Twinn

This is the story of Jemima Puddle-duck.

America

by George Brown Tindall, David Emory Shi

Heart-Shaped Box

by Joe Hill

Esio Trot

by Roald Dahl

"Mrs. Silver," he said.