Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"

The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

IN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

Бѣсы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...

How to live on 24 hours a day

by Arnold Bennett

Yes, he's one of those men that don't know how to manage.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

The most dangerous game

by Richard Connell

Sult

by Knut Hamsun

All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania-that strange city no one escapes from until it h...

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...

The Iron Heel

by Jack London

The soft summer wind stirs the redwoods, and Wild-Water ripples sweet cadences over its mossy stones.

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Que Stendhal confessasse haver escrito um de seus livros para cem leitores, coisa é que admira e consterna.

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

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...

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.