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The Moonstone
The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...

1800 977 ed.
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

IT was a dark and stormy night.

1962 105 ed.
De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
Die Traumdeutung
Die Traumdeutung

by Sigmund Freud

IN the pages that follow I shall bring forward proof that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to ...

1899 141 ed.
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

1874 551 ed.
Gitanjali (song offerings)
Gitanjali (song offerings)

by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.

1910 217 ed.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mount...

1929 181 ed.
Women in Love
Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talk...

1877 564 ed.
The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...

1895 479 ed.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

1859 651 ed.
The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming.

1942 127 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

1889 544 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

1678 683 ed.
Heart of Darkness
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.

1899 552 ed.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

1908 1346 ed.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.

1964 221 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 ed.
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

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...

1887 1447 ed.