A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.

Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire

by Thomas Hardy

To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

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...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?

Of Human Bondage

by William Somerset Maugham

The day broke gray and dull.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

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...

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.