The Napoleon of Notting Hill

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and ...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

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 ...

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

MARRY the heroine of this fiction, was the daughter of Edward, who married Eliza, a gentle, fashionable girl, with a kin...

The House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

Anne's House of Dreams

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

I RETURNED from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

THE WEATHER DOOR OF THE SMOKING-ROOM HAD BEEN LEFT open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...

Voyage Out

by Virginia Woolf

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-ar...

The house by the church-yard

by Sheridan Le Fanu

Fear Nothing

by Dean Koontz, Phil Parks