American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

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...

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

by Joseph Murphy

You have infinite riches within your reach.

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...

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

ONE THING WAS certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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 Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...