Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Отцы и дети

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

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

The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

How beautiful the countryside was in summer!

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Antonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

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 foreign...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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...

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 Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.