The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pippi Långstrump

by Astrid Lindgren

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the hou...

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

That last time.

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

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...

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, privet drive.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Les deux hommes surgirent de nulle part, à quelques mètres l’un de l’autre, sur le chemin étroit éclairé par la lune. Pe...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wiz...

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...