The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

IT is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

La noche que Max se puso un traje de lobo y comenzo a hacer una travesura tras otra su mama le dijo: "!ERES UN MONSTROU!...

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...

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...

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

THERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Преступление и наказание

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

В начале июля, в чрезвычайно жаркое время, под вечер, один молодой человек вышел из своей каморки, которую нанимал от жи...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...