De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

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, and...

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Bible

by Bible

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

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Les deux hommes surgirent de nulle part, à quelques mètres l’un de l’autre, sur le chemin étroit éclairé par la lune. Pe...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

Ce n’était pas la première fois qu’une dispute éclatait au petit déjeuner dans la maison du 4, Privet Drive. Mr Vernon D...

L’étranger

by Albert Camus

Vandaag is moeder gestorven.

Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House,” even though it had been many years since the Ridd...