Parent and child in fiction

by Robert D. Strom

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

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...

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

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

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.

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...

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 foreig...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

Guess How Much I Love You

by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975

Amerika

by Franz Kafka

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...

Hänsel und Gretel

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

In a house by the sea on the edge of a large forest lived a poor fisherman with his wife and two children.

Danny, The Champion of the World

by Roald Dahl

WHEN I WAS four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself.

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer

HO Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been will...

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...

The Runaway Bunny

by Margaret Wise Brown

Habia una vez on conejito que se queria ir de casa.