The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

Story of Ralph Moore

by American Sunday-School Union. Committee of Publication

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up ...

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

King Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeare's most intense, profound and powerful tragedy.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

THE MOLE HAD been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Following the battle of Shrewsbury (where King Henry and Prince Hal were victorious and Hotspur killed), Rumor spreads t...

The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

It was a beautiful summer day.

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.