The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain

The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journ...

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords, with Musicians playing.

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with li...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

Bible

by Bible

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

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

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

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...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Den Hühnerstall seines Gutshofes hatte Mr. Jones am Abend abgeschlossen, aber so betrunken, wie er war, hatte er nicht d...

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

LEONATO: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

The tiring house facade in an Elizabethan public playhouse would have provided a background ornate, formal and symmetric...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.