The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Laws, etc

by United States

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

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, and...

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

The science of getting rich, or, financial success through c...

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or success...

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

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...

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

The works of Washington Irving

by Washington Irving

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...