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...

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...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...

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 ...

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...

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

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

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where do...

Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.

King Henry VIII

by William Shakespeare

I come no more to make you laugh; things now

Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman, Anna Llisterri

Saint Joan

by George Bernard Shaw

A fine spring morning on the river Meuse, between Lorraine and Champagne, in the year 1429 A.D., in the castle of Vaucou...

American Film

by American Film Institute

Untouchable [by] Mulk Raj Anand

by Mulk Raj Anand, Mulk-Raj Anand

THE outcastes' colony was a group of mud-wallet houses that clustered together in two rows, under the shadow both of the...