My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

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

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...

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Carmilla

by Sheridan Le Fanu

Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he acc...

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

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...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

O GODDESS! sing the wrath of Peleus' son,

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: "Now I saw, th...

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

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 ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.