Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

Death in the Clouds

by Agatha Christie

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter lived underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

On 24 May 1863, which was a Sunday, my uncle, Professor Lidenbrock, came rushing back towards his little house, No. 19 K...

Curtain

by Agatha Christie

WHO is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie

Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.

Elephants Can Remember

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Oliver looked at herself in the glass.

Peril at End House

by Agatha Christie

NO seaside town in the south of England is, I think, as attractive as St. Loo.

The Moving Finger

by Agatha Christie

and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.

Hallowe'en Party

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ariadne Oliver had gone with the friend with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Les deux hommes surgirent de nulle part, à quelques mètres l’un de l’autre, sur le chemin étroit éclairé par la lune. Pe...

Nemesis

by Agatha Christie

In the afternoons it was the custom of Miss Jane Marple to unfold her second newspaper.

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon a...

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 6....

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

La journée la plus chaude de l’été, jusqu’à présent en tout cas, tirait à sa fin et un silence somnolent s’était install...

Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.