His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

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...

The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

AFTER the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in t...

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

T was the night before Christmas, When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,