Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig t...

European Communities (Spanish and Portuguese Accession) Act,...

by Rand McNally

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch über den Urwald, das „Erlebte geschichten hieß“, ein prächtige...

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on-foot, you shall see ...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Il giorno più caldo dell’estate – almeno fino a quel momento – volgeva al termine e un silenzio sonnacchioso gravava sul...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...