Dumb Witness

by Agatha Christie

MISS Arundell died on May 1st.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré

The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Love and Freindship

by Jane Austen

The Twits

by Roald Dahl

Pippi Långstrump

by Astrid Lindgren

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unrega...

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

Tik-Tok of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"I won't!" cried Ann; I won't sweep the floor.

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 Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"Please miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L. Frank Baum

THE train from 'Frisco was very late.

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)

by Jerome Klapka Jérôme

THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...