The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

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...

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...

Martin Eden

by Jack London

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

The Sea-Wolf

by Jack London

I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

I WRITE THIS sitting in the kitchen sink.

Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate S...

The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough, Colleen McCullough

On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.

Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;

My Cousin Rachel

by Daphne du Maurier

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

To the irreverent-and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?-there is something v...

Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My pensive SARA! thy soft cheek reclined

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf

It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouri...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Night Over Water

by Ken Follett, K. Follett

IT WAS THE MOST romantic plane ever made.