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'...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

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King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I SHALL TURN OUT TO BE THE HERO OF MY own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

1.1 Antonio, a Venetian merchant, has invested all his wealth in trading expeditions.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.