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...

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

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 hood...

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.

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I...

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

DUSK-of a summer night.

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

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.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

part 1 They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up be...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins, Suzanne Collins

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.

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...

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

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.

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.