Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

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...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

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...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

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...

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 ...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

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

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...

Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...

King John

by William Shakespeare

1.1 [Flourish.] Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, the Earls of Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury, with Chatillon, the French ...

King Henry VI. Part 2

by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part Three powerfully depicts a country torn apart by civil war.

British intelligence in the Second World War

by F. H. Hinsley, Francis H. Hinsley

SECURITY as it was defined by the British war-time Security Executive in 1942 - 'the defence of national interests again...

Labyrinths

by Jorge Luis Borges

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

Spying on Ireland

by Eunan O'Halpin

British Cultural Memory And The Second World War

by Lucy Noakes