War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

¿Has oído hablar, amigo lector, siquiera alguna vez, de Stephen Crane?

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

AFTER dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat: he had said, "I'll be with you at latest by ten,...

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Hace más de un siglo y medio que se publicó por vez primera 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sl...

Nine Stories

by J. D. Salinger

There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lin...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

History

by Herodotus

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...

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...

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...

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré

The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...