Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

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

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

Tik-Tok of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"I WON'T!" cried Ann; I won't sweep the floor.

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Phantastes

by George MacDonald

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

HAVE you heard of the great Forest of Burzee?

She

by H. Rider Haggard

There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...

Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

Little men

by Louisa May Alcott

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS. DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L. Frank Baum

The train from Frisco was very late.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, expect one, grow up.

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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'...