The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

How beautiful the countryside was in summer!

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...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...

Thumbelina

by Hans Christian Andersen, Elsa Beskow

Once upon a time there was a woman who longed to have a tiny child of her own, but she had no idea where to get one.

The great controversy

by Ellen Gould Harmon White, E. G. White

"If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid ...

Eaters of the Dead

by Michael Crichton

Grendel

by John Gardner

The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.

The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...

by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching

It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ...

Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings

by Snorri Sturluson

1. The earth's round face, whereon mankind dwells, is much cleft because great gulfs run up into the land from the ocean...

World mythology

by Donna Rosenberg

The myths of Greece have earned universal fame and popularity.

Queer places

by Elisa Rolle

History of architecture

by Fletcher, Banister Sir

Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

A Scandal in Bohemia

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Erling the bold

by Robert Michael Ballantyne, Frank Dicksee

By the early light of a bright summer morning, long, long ago, two small boats were seen to issue from one of the fiords...

The timing of facial osteotomies in children and adolescents