The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

How beautiful the countryside was in summer!

Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar

by Lindley Murray

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

The Alchemist, 1612

by Ben Jonson

BEleeu't I will.

The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby

by Charles Kingsley

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

by C. S. Lewis

THERE WAS A BOY CALLED EUSTACE CLARENCE Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The Horse and His Boy

by C. S. Lewis

THIS IS THE STORY OF AN ADVENTURE that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Pet...

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.

The Man Who Was Thursday

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, except one, grow up.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.