Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit

The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the childr...

Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

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 Illustrated Man

by Ray Bradbury

"GEORGE, I wish you'd look at the nursery."

It

by Stephen King

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, w...

Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton

The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious has...

Evelina

by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney

CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with [Egeon] the Merchant of Syracusa, Jailer, and other Attendants.

The Chosen

by Chaim Potok, Jonathan Davis

FOR THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of t...

The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

The Rainmaker

by John Grisham

MY DECISION to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;

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 ...

Tintenherz

by Cornelia Funke

Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain.

Lorna Doone

by R. D. Blackmore

If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeom...

Rain

by V.C. Andrews

For as long as I could remember, we lived in an apartment located in a building complex everyone called The Projects.