The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

First Lady

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountain...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming i...

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...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

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...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen