The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

Evelina

by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...

Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A GLANCE at the occupational statistics of any country of mixed religious composition brings to light with remarkable fr...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

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...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

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...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

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...

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Careers in Focus

by Ferguson Publishing Company

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

by Sir Isaac Newton

If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.