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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

563 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
Rime of the ancient mariner
Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

1827 156 ed.
Ulysses
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...

1914 612 ed.
Great Expectations
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...

1861 1489 ed.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

1896 295 ed.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

1678 683 ed.
Jacob's Room
Jacob's Room

by Virginia Woolf

So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leav...

1922 309 ed.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the falls azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived ...

1945 58 ed.
I am Legend
I am Legend

by Richard Matheson

On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he c...

1954 55 ed.
The holy war
The holy war

by John Bunyan, Daniel V. Runyon

IN my travels, as I walked through many regions and countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous continent of ...

1682 149 ed.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

by Robert C. O'Brien, Zena Bernstein

Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named...

1970 48 ed.
His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

2000 40 ed.
American Film
American Film

by American Film Institute

1975 83 ed.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, "authen...

1998 14 ed.
House of Stairs
House of Stairs

by William Sleator

The whirring around them had been going on for quite a long time.

1974 9 ed.
The Cradle Will Fall
The Cradle Will Fall

by Mary Higgins Clark

If her mind had not been on the case she had won, Katie might not have taken the curve so fast, but the intense satisfac...

1980 32 ed.