Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

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...

Como agua para chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

Take care to chop the onion fine.

Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.

Lorna Doone

by R. D. Blackmore

If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeom...

Dragonfly in Amber

by Diana Gabaldon

Roger Wakefield stood in the center of the room, feeling surrounded.

Midwinter

by John Buchan

Inheritance

by Christopher Paolini

Can't stop, won't stop

by Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

Generations are fictions.

King Henry VI. Part 2

by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part Three powerfully depicts a country torn apart by civil war.

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.

Trinity

by Leon Uris

I recall with utter clarity the first great shock of my life.

Micah Clarke

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IT may be, my dear grandchildren, that at one time or another I have told you nearly all the incidents which have occurr...

Tom Brown's School Days

by Thomas Hughes

Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ...

by Sir Walter Scott

THE title this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from...

Poems

by Rudyard Kipling, Elliot

Looking back from this my seventieth year, it seems to me that every card in my working life has been dealt me in such a...