Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

Then Ulfius was glad, and rode on more than a pace till that he came to King Uther Pendragon, and told him he had met wi...

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 Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

1 The way that can be spoken of Is not the constant way; The named that can be named Is not the constant name.

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...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.

Die Blechtrommel

by Günter Grass

GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a pe...

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Laws, etc

by United States

History

by Herodotus

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore

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

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed . . .

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

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...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Chiamatemi Ismaele.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

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...