Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

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

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and common...

The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells, Ellen Marriage

The problem which was already being mooted by such scientific men as Ramsay, Rutherford, and Soddy, in the very beginnin...

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...

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

Love and Freindship

by Jane Austen

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...

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.