The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

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...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

Watership Down

by Richard Adams

The primroses were over.

Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Divergent

by Veronica Roth

Chez moi, il y a un miroir.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

Le roman du masque de fer

by Alexandre Dumas

SINCE ARAMIS' SINGULAR TRANSFORMATION INTO A CONfessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.