The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

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...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Bible

by Bible

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

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

I. Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

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

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Made Easy is intended for readers approaching the plays for the first time, who find the language of Elizabe...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.