On The Road

by Jack Kerouac

I FIRST met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

Burmese Days

by George Orwell

U PO KYIN, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

I 24 WAS SPITEFUL.

The Red Pony

by John Steinbeck

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California.

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

HARI SELDON ... born in the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era: died 12,069.

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

Ficciones

by Jorge Luis Borges

Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.

Shirley

by Charlotte Brontë

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; ever...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

Casino Royale

by Ian Fleming

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high...