Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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...

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger.

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

ALL happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

FLAVIUS Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home.

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.