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The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.

1893 536 ed.
The Lost World
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, ...

1900 747 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

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

1200 6084 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
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...

1800 2059 ed.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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...

1899 2049 ed.
Little Women
Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

1848 1888 ed.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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

1862 526 ed.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

1880 1988 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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...

1865 3546 ed.
Oliver Twist
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...

1822 2209 ed.
Wuthering Heights
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.

1846 2886 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"

1872 750 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

1678 683 ed.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

1908 1299 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

1855 755 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

1843 3198 ed.