Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

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...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Food and drink in literature

by Norman Kiell

Penguin Book of Drink in Literature

by Stephen Brook

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary

KEITH, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain...

In Vino Veritas

by Nicholas O. Warner

Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears

by Verna Aardema

One morning a mosquito saw an iguana drinking at a waterhole.

Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope

The People of the Abyss

by Jack London

"But you can't do it, you know," friends said, to whom I applied for assistance in the matter of sinking myself down int...

L'Heptaméron

by Marguerite Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

The Flying Inn

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Thurber Carnival

by James Thurber

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac, Tom Parker

THE CHURCH IS BLOWING a sad windblown "Kathleen" on the bells in the skid row slums as I wake up all woebegone and goopy...

Collected Short Stories [51 stories]

by Roald Dahl

La reina del Sur

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Babel of Bottles

by James Nicholls, Susan J. Owen