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!

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 any body else, these pag...

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

Idle reader, without an oath thou mayest believe, that I wish this book, as the child of my understanding, were the most...

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...

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...

Emma

by Jane Austen

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

Dubliners

by James Joyce

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

Science fiction and fantasy reference index, 1985-1991

by Halbert W. Hall

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

It is cold; and it is midnight.

Postcolonial Criticism

by Nicholas Harrison

At the time that Heart of Darkness was written much of the Congo region was effectively the personal property of Leopold...

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...

British novelists and their styles

by David Masson

American fictions, 1940-1980

by Frederick Robert Karl

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

1 WITCH When shall we three meet again

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

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...