The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...

The Enchanted Castle

by Edith Nesbit

There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is written from memory, unfortunately.

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, expect one, grow up.

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...

Phantastes

by George MacDonald

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed.

Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

Der Proceß

by Franz Kafka

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

The Book of Dragons

by Edith Nesbit

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

The Vampyre

by John William Polidori

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 Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

The Jewel of Seven Stars

by Bram Stoker

IT ALL SEEMED SO REAL THAT I COULD HARDLY IMAGINE that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a ...

She

by H. Rider Haggard

There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...

Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talk...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...