Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit

The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the childr...

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.

Fear Street - The Rich Girl

by Robert Lawrence Stine

Sydney Shue tossed the metal scoop back into the popcorn maker and hurried to the other end of the concession counter.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up ...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

It is cold; and it is midnight.

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.

The Children's Book

by A. S. Byatt

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

The war lasted so very, very long.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Steampunk!

by Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things ...

Wrecking Ball

by Jeff Kinney

I've read in ancient times they used to bury kings and pharaohs with all their possessions.

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.