The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

With a frown Miss Polly folded the letter and tucked it into its envelope.

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

Henry Moore

by David Sylvester, Henry Moore

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

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

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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 Call of the Wild

by Jack London

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...

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....

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...