Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

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...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...

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.

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

A Few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Há bastante tempo, o autor tem a opinião de que muitos dos mitos clássicos poderiam se tornar uma excelente leitura para...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,