Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Les deux hommes surgirent de nulle part, à quelques mètres l’un de l’autre, sur le chemin étroit éclairé par la lune. Pe...

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district i...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"Please miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Bible

by Bible

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

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

On the 25th of January, 1759—in a clay cottage near the bridge of Doon, Ayrshire—was born Robert Burns, the great Poet o...

The well of loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

NOT VERY FAR FROM Upton-on-Severn - between it, in fact, and the Malvern Hills - stands the country seat of the Gordons ...

The reluctant dragon

by Kenneth Grahame, Jim Weiss

LONG ago-might have been hundreds of years ago-in a cottage halfway between a little English village and the shoulder of...

North and South

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

'Edith!' said Margaret, gently, 'Edith!'

The Book of Lost Tales [1/2]

by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage

by Enid Blyton