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...

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...

Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

Robert Langdon awoke slowly.

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords, with Musicians playing.

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...

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...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, like most of Shakespeare's comedies, is about love and marriage.

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...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

MRS. DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.

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...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed . . .

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen