The Sea Fairies

by L. Frank Baum

"Nobody," said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale."

Ficciones

by Jorge Luis Borges

Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.

The Last Man

by Mary Shelley

I visited Naples in the year 1818.

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

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 Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

I 24 WAS SPITEFUL.

The blue castle

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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 ...

Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is written from memory, unfortunately.

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

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

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...

Shirley

by Charlotte Brontë

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; ever...

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...