Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal go...

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where do...

The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

Forged by fire

by Sharon M. Draper

The Return of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

MAGNIFIQUE!" ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath.

Riders of the Purple Sage

by Zane Grey

A SHARP clip-clop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwood...

The Sea-Hawk

by Rafael Sabatini

SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN sat at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the e...

The forge of God

by Greg Bear, Stephen Bel Davies

Arthur Gordon stood in the darkness by the bank of the Rogue River, having walked a dozen yards away from his house and ...

Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior : Forging Destiny

by Cube Kid

Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness.

The Relic

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

At noon, the clouds clinging to the top of Cerro Gordo broke free and scattered.

Typhoon

by Joseph Conrad

CAPTAIN MACWHIRR, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact c...

The Curse of Capistrano

by Johnston McCulley

Again the sheet of rain beat against the roof of red Spanish tile, and the wind shrieked like a soul in torment, and smo...

Made in America

by Bill Bryson

The image of the spiritual founding of America that generations of Americans have grown up with was created, oddly enoug...