Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

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

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...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

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

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

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

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 Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

A melody is heard, played upon a flute.

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...

Thomas Fuller

by SpotNotebooks

The life of Thomas Fuller, D. D

by John Eglington Bailey

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.