The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

SELDEN paused in surprise.

4:50 from Paddington

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.

Lilith

by George MacDonald

I had just finished my studies at Oxford, and was taking a brief holiday from work before assuming definitely the manage...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

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...

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

Lord Edgware Dies

by Agatha Christie

THE memory of the public is short.

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 Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"Please, miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, expect one, grow up.

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...

Ordeal by Innocence

by Agatha Christie

It was dusk when he came to the Ferry.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Shirley

by Charlotte Brontë

OF late years, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; eve...

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

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.

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

by Agatha Christie

STEPHEN pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform.

A Caribbean Mystery

by Agatha Christie

"Take all this business about Kenya," said Major Palgrave.