The Book of Dragons

by Edith Nesbit

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Que Stendhal confessasse haver escrito um de seus livros para cem leitores, coisa é que admira e consterna.

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

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

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

The Sea-Wolf

by Jack London

I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.

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 ...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.

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."

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman.

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

THE DAUGHTER: [in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left] I'm getting chilled to the bone.