Domestic medicine

by William Buchan M.D., William Nisbet

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished...

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White

WHERE'S Papa going with that ax?"

La casa de los espíritus

by Isabel Allende

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California.

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

ALL THIS HAPPENED, more or less.

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen.

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 Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...