Se questo è un uomo

by Primo Levi

I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of ...

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...

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with i...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

The most dangerous game

by Richard Connell

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.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...