Broomielaw

by Jim Hewitson

Scottish Historical Fiction

by John Buchan, Neil Munro

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

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 ...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

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...

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 ...

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

The Ambassadors

by Henry James

STRETHER'S FIRST question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was appare...

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson

"YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that ...

Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare

Enter two Gentlemen.

Poor things

by Alasdair Gray

Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car follo...

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter

THE war which had desolated Scotland was at an end.