Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.

A Study in Scarlet

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 A.B.C. Murders

by Agatha Christie

IT was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.

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 ...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

1 WITCH When shall we three meet again

Passenger to Frankfurt

by Agatha Christie

speaking the truth. I want help.

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 Seven Dials Mystery

by Agatha Christie

That amiable youth, Jimmy Thesiger, came racing down the big staircase at Chimneys two steps at a time.

Bible

by Bible

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

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!

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.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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 ...

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf