Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner

IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

À rebours

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

THE Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a...

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

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by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Little men

by Louisa May Alcott