Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.

Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A glance at the occupational statistics for any country in which several religions coexist is revealing.

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.

Anne of Windy Poplars

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Of Human Bondage

by William Somerset Maugham

The day broke gray and dull.

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; ever...

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

Good wives

by Louisa May Alcott

IN ORDER THAT we may start fresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip ...

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...

Psychopathia sexualis

by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Krafft/

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell