Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

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.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

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...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Elements

by Euclid

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...