King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig t...

The A.B.C. Murders

by Agatha Christie

It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Selden paused in surprise.

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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré

The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?

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...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains.

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child