James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

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...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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.

Bible

by Bible

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

Diary

by Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...

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

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Преступление и наказание

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

No início de julho, ao entardecer, sob um calor intenso, um jovem saiu do cubículo que sublocava na travessa S.

Cato

by Joseph Addison, Christine Dunn Henderson

THE dawn is over-caft, the morning low'rs,

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar ...

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 any body else, these pag...

The Moving Finger

by Agatha Christie

and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde

When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish ...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...