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.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

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.

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar ...

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

Hallowe'en Party

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ariadne Oliver had gone with the friend with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for...

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...

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS. DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I WILL BEGIN the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

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, an...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...