The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

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...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

ON the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Phara...

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L. Frank Baum

THE train from 'Frisco was very late.

Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unrega...

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

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...

A Study in Scarlet

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...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.

The Lost Symbol

by Dan Brown

Meus sinceros agradecimentos a três amigos queridos com quem tenho a grande honra de trabalhar: meu editor, Jason Kaufma...