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...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

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

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.

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

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.

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...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.