Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet.

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...

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.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Leisurely reader: you don't need me to swear that I longed for this book, born out of my own brain, to be the handsomest...

Emma

by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the b...

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

IT IS A LITTLE remarkable, thatthough disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my ...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. Uneasy siIence.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again?

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Candide

by Voltaire

In Westphalia, in the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh, there lived a young boy whom nature had endowed with the swee...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

"July 24: Write my story."

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is Facts.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

BENT UPON SEEING THE WORLD - I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family. My father designed me f...

A handbook of literary criticism

by William Henry Sheran

πολιτεία

by Plato

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Starker Rosenduft erfüllte das Atelier, und wenn der leichte Sommerwind sich zwsichen den Bäumen des Gartens regte, dran...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

The Art of War

by 孙武 (Sun Tzu), Stephen F. Kaufman

This is war.