Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming i...

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping th...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

La journée la plus chaude de l’été, jusqu’à présent en tout cas, tirait à sa fin et un silence somnolent s’était install...

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...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

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

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...

Paul Klee

by Paul Klee

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...

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

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 Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

That last time.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

She

by H. Rider Haggard

There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.