A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night.

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...

History

by Herodotus

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I...

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...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

SLY I'll feeze you, in faith.

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on-foot, you shall see ...

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...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

FLAVIUS Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home.

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As ...

Cujo

by Stephen King

ONCE UPON A TIME, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine.

The Ugly American

by William J. Lederer, Eugene Burdick

The Honorable Louis Sears, American Ambassador to Sarkhan, was angry.

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically m...

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure is one of the best of Shakespeare's plays, though it has not always received the appreciation it des...