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Villette, a novel
Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

1853 519 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

1859 465 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
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...

1800 538 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

1800 480 ed.
Oliver Twist
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...

1822 2209 ed.
War and Peace
War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.

1864 642 ed.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

1900 344 ed.
La Poetica
La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

1479 498 ed.
Evil Under the Sun
Evil Under the Sun

by Agatha Christie

WHEN Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off Leather-combe Bay, it was thought ...

1941 120 ed.
The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed.

1894 431 ed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

1890 3012 ed.
The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming.

1942 127 ed.
कामसूत्र
कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

1883 381 ed.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Jewel of Seven Stars

by Bram Stoker

IT all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a ...

1902 653 ed.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.

1926 220 ed.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

1656 1226 ed.
King Solomon's Mines
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...

1880 1091 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

1877 244 ed.