Private

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

To the best of my understandably shaky recollection, the first time I died it went something like this.

Anthem

by Ayn Rand

IT IS A SIN TO WRITE THIS.

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this a...

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

City of Fallen Angels

by Cassandra Clare

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

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...

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

The House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

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...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.