A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore

THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Barnardo. Who's there?

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

The House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

All morning she had sat in the window seat of her room.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BÂTARD WAS A DEVIL.

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 hoo...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

English grammar

by Lindley Murray

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

To the biographer and student of literature, Erich Maria Remarque, who has been called the "recording angel of the Great...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with li...

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.