The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

WHEN MARY LENNOX WAS SENT TO MISSELTHWAITE MANOR to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

IT was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Unbehagen in der Kultur

by Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is in a class with Plato's Republic, Milton's Paradise Lost, Marx's Cap...

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

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...

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

Vuestro tan respetable hermano, el Sr. Sidney Godolphin, gustaba mientras vivió de tomar en consideración mis escritos, ...

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

SIR WALTER ELLIOT, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but ...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In Greek mythology, Promotheus was the Titan charged with giving abilities to the animals of the earth.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations

by Cotterell, Arthur.

The period between about 3100 BC, when dynastic history began, and 332 BC, when Egyptian independence was brought to an ...