The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

THE PRETTY LITTLE SWISS TOWN of Maienfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range, whose grim rugged peaks tower high above...

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 presents," 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.

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.

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.

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

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

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...

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...

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...

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

THE MOLE HAD been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

SIR WALTER ELLIOT, of Kellynch-hall, in Somerset-shire, 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.