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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

1893 530 ed.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

1880 1988 ed.
The Last of the Mohicans
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...

1826 862 ed.
Heidi
Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

1885 180 ed.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
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...

1900 118 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.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

1844 1104 ed.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Hans had served his master seven years, and at last said to him, 'Master, my time is up, I should like to go home and se...

1812 208 ed.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

1597 985 ed.
Study Guide
Study Guide

by SuperSummary

2019 308 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

DEPENDING ON WHO you listened to, it was either the best of times, or it was the worst of times.

1800 2059 ed.
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

In one of Hans Christian Andersen's last tales, the search is on for "the most incredible thing."

1846 298 ed.
Kidnapped
Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

1886 352 ed.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

1920 301 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

1807 372 ed.
The Prince
The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.

1515 1407 ed.
The Jungle
The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

1707 673 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matt...

1876 2622 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

1611 804 ed.