The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...

Laws, etc

by United States

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chap...

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

ALL happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those wh...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

SUN TZU SAID: The military is a great matter of the state.

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...

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.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Le roman du masque de fer

by Alexandre Dumas

SINCE Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.

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...

The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

IN the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?