Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Bible

by Bible

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

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Pippi Långstrump

by Astrid Lindgren

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

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

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig t...

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

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...

Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!