Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Il giorno più caldo dell’estate – almeno fino a quel momento – volgeva al termine e un silenzio sonnacchioso gravava sul...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours

by Jules Verne

MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

The Two Towers

by J.R.R. Tolkien

ARAGORN sped on up the hill.

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

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 ...

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

В конце ноября, в оттепель, часов в девять утра, поезд Петербургско-Варшавской железной дороги на всех парах подходил к ...

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

The House of the Dead

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN the remoter parts of Siberia, in the midst of the steppes, the mountains, or the pathless forests, lie scattered a fe...

Five Little Pigs

by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.

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...

Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

The Black Moth

by Georgette Heyer