Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen.

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

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...

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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...

Richard III

by William Shakespeare

1.1 Richard, alone onstage, reveals his intention to play the villain.

The Stepford Wives

by Ira Levin

THE WELCOME WAGON lady, sixty if she was a day but working at youth and vivacity (ginger hair, red lips, a sunshine-yell...

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

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

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

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

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...

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,

Hollywood Wives

by Jackie Collins

YOU LOOK FANTASTIC!

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure is one of the best of Shakespeare's plays, though it has not always received the appreciation it des...

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically m...