The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and common...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

El túnel

by Ernesto Sabato

Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso está en el recuerdo...

Dumb Witness

by Agatha Christie

MISS Arundell died on May 1st.

The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a sw...

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

DUSK-of a summer night.

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...

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar ...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Death in the Clouds

by Agatha Christie

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Dead Man's Folly

by Agatha Christie

IT was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

Sparkling Cyanide

by Agatha Christie

Iris Marle was thinking about her sister, Rosemary.

Elephants Can Remember

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Oliver looked at herself in the glass.

Ordeal by Innocence

by Agatha Christie

It was dusk when he came to the Ferry.

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...

L’étranger

by Albert Camus

Vandaag is moeder gestorven.

Appointment with Death

by Agatha Christie

"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.