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Fables
Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

1678 345 ed.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

1899 2049 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

1854 1139 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

1608 1614 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
Northern Lights
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.

1995 148 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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

1862 526 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
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...

1800 538 ed.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

1855 639 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

1800 2406 ed.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

1903 1700 ed.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

1898 563 ed.
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown

En la gran habitacion verde, hay un telefono, un globo rojo y un cuadro...

1947 143 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

1600 1505 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

1600 1594 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

1818 2185 ed.
The Giver
The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

1993 106 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

1611 804 ed.