The Most Beautiful Roof in the World

by Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. Knight

MEG LOWMAN climb trees.

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those wh...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

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...

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...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

FLAVIUS Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home.

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...