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Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
Emma
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.
Curtain
by Agatha Christie
WHO is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
La Poetica
by Aristotle
THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...
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 ...
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
Sleeping Murder
by Agatha Christie
Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.
Anne of the Island
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
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...
The Moving Finger
by Agatha Christie
and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.