Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

In one of Hans Christian Andersen's last tales, the search is on for "the most incredible thing."

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I SHALL TURN OUT TO BE THE HERO OF MY own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...

Management information systems

by Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon

The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming.

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

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...

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Salomé

by Oscar Wilde

SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...

The Hollow

by Agatha Christie

AT 6:13 A.M. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day, and as always, she was at once ...

The Big Four

by Agatha Christie

I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

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...

Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.