Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

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...

Amerika

by Franz Kafka

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer

HO Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been will...

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

La Fiesta del Chivo

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Urania. Her parents had done her no favor; her name suggested a planet, a mineral, anything but the slender, fine-featur...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

BRIAN ROBESON stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

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...

Loving

by Danielle Steel

THE air was so still in the brilliant summer sun that you could hear the birds, and every sound for miles, as Sarah sat ...

Pamela

by Samuel Richardson

I have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with.

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.

Maus I

by Art Spiegelman

I went out to see my Father in Rego Park.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

What Katy Did

by Susan Coolidge, Adele Ledyard

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

WHEN I WAS LITTLE, the great mystery to me wasn't <i>how</i> babies were made, but <i>why</i>.

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

by Margaret Sidney

The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of mid-day; and now, with its afternoon manners on...

The Testament

by John Grisham

DOWN TO THE LAST DAY, even the last hour now.

As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file.