The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

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...

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

Maurice

by E. M. Forster

Once a term the whole school went for a walk – that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

With a frown Miss Polly folded the letter and tucked it into its envelope.

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of ...

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...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

"Now, what I want is, Facts.

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...

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

IT IS A LITTLE REMARKABLE THAT-THOUGH DISINCLINED to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my p...

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

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

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...

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.