Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.

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...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

The Lost Hero

by Rick Riordan

Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day

Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

Georg Baselitz

by Georg Baselitz, Rainer M. Mason

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Há bastante tempo, o autor tem a opinião de que muitos dos mitos clássicos poderiam se tornar uma excelente leitura para...

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

Der Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

The day had gone by just as days go by.

History

by Herodotus

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

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

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 foreig...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.