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...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talk...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

Cato

by Joseph Addison, Christine Dunn Henderson

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

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...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

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 anybody else, these page...

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

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.

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...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Laws, etc

by United States

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

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...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences