Lilith

by George MacDonald

I had just finished my studies at Oxford, and was taking a brief holiday from work before assuming definitely the manage...

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

The Screwtape Letters

by C. S. Lewis

I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands.

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...

Note-taking

by Samuel Swayze Seward

The Art of Public Speaking

by Stephen E. Lucas

Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker.

Psychology

by Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant

Taking the change for his five-franc piece from the woman behind the till, Duroy left the restaurant.

Economics

by McGraw-Hill

The holy war

by John Bunyan, Daniel V. Runyon

IN my travels, as I walked through many regions and countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous continent of ...

Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...