Martin Eden

by Jack London

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

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...

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful...

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

On The Road

by Jack Kerouac

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New Yo...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

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.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

I am living at the Villa Borghese.

20 Years at Hull House

by Jane Addams

On the theory that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked b...

John Barleycorn

by Jack London

It all came to me one election day.

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

Louisa May Alcott

by Louisa May Alcott

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is universally recognized as the greatest and most popular story-teller for children in her generation...