A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night.

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

It was 7 minutes after midnight.

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...

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...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, bariptity, bariptity-Good. His dad had the pickup going."

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Adolescence in literature

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

Il était près de minuit et le Premier Ministre, assis seul dans son bureau, lisait un long rapport dont les mots lui tra...

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

THE WEATHER DOOR OF THE SMOKING-ROOM HAD BEEN LEFT open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house...

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

BRIAN ROBESON stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

THE PLAY-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding s...