The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

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

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...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...

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...

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Liebe Bettine, dieses Buch kehrt abermals bei Ihnen ein, wie eine ausgeflogene Taube die Heimat wieder such und sich da ...

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...

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

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

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...

Fables

by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs

ONE hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come, just at the same time, to quench their thirst in the stream of ...

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

I WRITE THIS sitting in the kitchen sink.

The Thomas and Mary Ann Percy family in Canada

by Dean H. Percy

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson

YE who liften with credulity to the whifpers of fancy, and purfue with eagernefs the phantoms of hope ; who expect that ...

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

His children are falling from the sky.

C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii de bello gallico

by Gaius Julius Caesar, Marieluise Deißmann

James Castle

by Ann Percy

Great And Mighty Things Outsider Art From The Jill And Sheld...

by Ann Percy