Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

Der Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us looked each other in the face.

Fifty Shades of Grey

by E. L. James

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

As a man thinketh

by James Allen

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

Lilith

by George MacDonald

I had just finished my studies at Oxford, and was taking a brief holiday from work before assuming definitely the manage...

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...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

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

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Bible

by Bible

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

The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

How beautiful the countryside was in summer!