Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Surfacing

by Margaret Atwood

I can't believe I'm on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is s...

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...

Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;

The Art of Public Speaking

by Stephen E. Lucas

Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker.

Extradition laws and treaties, United States

by United States

Stuart Little

by E. B. White

WHEN Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody notice that he was not much bigger than a mouse.

America

by George Brown Tindall, David Emory Shi

Poems

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I stood upon the mountain which o'erlooks

Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My pensive SARA! thy soft cheek reclined

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

by Barthe DeClements

Mrs. Hanson, our fifth grade teacher, was sitting at her desk grading papers.

The Green Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

Once upon a time there lived a King who was immensely rich.

Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

ANNE SHIRLEY was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar...

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

by J. K. Rowling

There was once a kindly old wizard who used his magic generously and wisely for the benefit of his neighbors.

Sailing alone around the world

by Joshua Slocum

In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fun...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Cl...

by John Maynard Keynes, Jens Hölscher

THE disposition towards public affairs, which we conveniently sum up as Individualism and laissez-faire, drew its susten...

Ethica

by Benedictus de Spinoza, Wolfgang Bartuschat

I. BY THAT which is SELF-CAUSED, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is onl...

Rewards and fairies

by Rudyard Kipling

Once upon a time, Dan and Una, brother and sister, living in the English country, had the good fortune to meet with Puck...