Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, tho' not of that country, my father being a foreigne...

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...

It

by Stephen King

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, w...

Rembrandt

by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Holm Bevers

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

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...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1626, the market-town of Meung, in which the author of the "Romance of the ro...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, like most of Shakespeare's comedies, is about love and marriage.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

Para empezar, Marley estaba muerto.

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Barnardo. Who's there?

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...