Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

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 Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

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

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD THIS story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

The blue castle

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

Whose Body?

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed.

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day-a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage, and f...

As a man thinketh

by James Allen

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...