Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner

IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...

Watership Down

by Richard Adams

The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

To SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman.

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore

THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoo...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Poetics

by Aristotle

I PROPOSE to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into t...

Elephants Can Remember

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Oliver looked at herself in the glass.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...

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...

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.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Barnardo. Who's there?

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with li...

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.