The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...

La Poetica

by Aristotle

We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

Laws, etc

by Great Britain.

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I SHALL TURN OUT TO BE THE HERO OF MY own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

'WHAT'S it going to be then, eh?'

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

The Hollow

by Agatha Christie

AT 6:13 A.M. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day, and as always, she was at once ...

The Big Four

by Agatha Christie

I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...

Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

After the Funeral

by Agatha Christie

OLD Lanscombe moved totteringly from room to room, pulling up the blinds.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.