Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, bariptity, bariptity-Good. His dad had the pickup going."

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby

by Charles Kingsley

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

THE sun had not yet risen.

Curtain

by Agatha Christie

WHO is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

Emotions in literature

by Anthony of Taizé, Brother, Francis K. H. So

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...

Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune

by Gaston Leroux

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille.

The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe

TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Frog and Toad Together

by Arnold Lobel

Then Toad wrote other things on the paper.

The anatomy of melancholy

by Robert Burton

VADE liber, qualis, non ausim dicere, felix, Te nisi felicem fecerit Alma dies.

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

My name is India Opal Buloni and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-chee...

Sex and the City

by Candace Bushnell

The pioneers

by James Fenimore Cooper

NEAR the center of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills an...

A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy

Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

by Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on ...