Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, bariptity, bariptity-Good. His dad had the pickup going."

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

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 ...

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

'Harvest is ended and summer is gone,' quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.

The Story of the Amulet

by Edith Nesbit

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a...

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott, Success Oceo

If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mr...

The Iron Heel

by Jack London

The soft summer wind stirs the redwoods, and Wild-Water ripples sweet cadences over its mossy stones.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]