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 ...

A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...

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.

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Salomé

by Oscar Wilde

SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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...

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 ...