Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

History

by Herodotus

Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis

Every one has heard people quarreling.

Lady Susan

by Jane Austen

Gitanjali (song offerings)

by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Que Stendhal confessasse haver escrito um de seus livros para cem leitores, coisa é que admira e consterna.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.