A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

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

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...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

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...

The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

IN the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

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

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

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