A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins

In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818...

by Mary Shelley

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...

Die Traumdeutung

by Sigmund Freud

In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret ...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

La Peste

by Albert Camus

Les curieux évènements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produit en 194., à Oran.

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late in the evening when K. arrived.

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

'WHAT'S it going to be then, eh?'

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

Der Proceß

by Franz Kafka

SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...

Casino Royale

by Ian Fleming

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high...

The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

THE sun had not yet risen.

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with i...