Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

DEPENDING ON WHO you listened to, it was either the best of times, or it was the worst of times.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD: TO BEGIN WITH.

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

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 Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dans un trou vivait un hobbit.

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.

Vom Kriege

by Carl von Clausewitz

One might rightly be taken aback that a woman would dare write a preface for such a work as this.