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...

Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

The Story of the Amulet

by Edith Nesbit

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a...

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and common...

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

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

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Il Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Dante and Beatrice are at the threshold of Heaven.

The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a sw...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

The Clocks

by Agatha Christie

TO use police terms: at 2:59 P.M. on September 9th.

Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

Les Robots

by Isaac Asimov

I looked at my notes and I didn't like them.

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As ...

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

A famished fox crept into a vineyard where ripe, luscious grapes were draped high upon arbors in a most tempting display...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818...

by Mary Shelley