Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

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...

Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

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...

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...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

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...

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.

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.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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

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...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen