Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

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 House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

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...

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

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...

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

The blue castle

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

The Razor's Edge

by William Somerset Maugham

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

Le roman du masque de fer

by Alexandre Dumas

SINCE Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.