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.

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.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

An autobiography

by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grand...

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...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...

Bible

by Bible

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

The World Almanac for Kids

by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel

One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...

The Return of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

MAGNIFIQUE!" ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath.

Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears

by Verna Aardema

One morning a mosquito saw an iguana drinking at a waterhole.

Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard

I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.

A Long Way Gone

by Ishmael Beah

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

ANYONE WHO WATCHES EVEN THE SLIGHTEST amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemi...