Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain.

Terre des hommes

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latecoere Company, the predecessors of Aeropostale (now Air Franc...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Há bastante tempo, o autor tem a opinião de que muitos dos mitos clássicos poderiam se tornar uma excelente leitura para...

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and ...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

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 ...

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

We are in Paris in 1640, the era of Dumas's Three Musketeers.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

¿Has oído hablar, amigo lector, siquiera alguna vez, de Stephen Crane?

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...

The Book of Dragons

by Edith Nesbit