Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

I 24 WAS SPITEFUL.

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...

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

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 ...

History

by Herodotus

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

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...

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

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...

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.