Howards End

by E. M. Forster

One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.

Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

It was a golden morning in Sherwood Forest.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

by M. H. Abrams, M. Abrams

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the cle...

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

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...

Kritik der reinen Vernunft

by Immanuel Kant

That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

The tiring house facade in an Elizabethan public playhouse would have provided a background ornate, formal and symmetric...

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark,

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Again you come to me, faltering shapes

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

HERE IS Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you ...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school ...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.