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...

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

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...

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...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

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...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

The Sea-Wolf

by Jack London

I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Post Captain

by Patrick O'Brian

At first dawn the swathes of rain drifting eastwards across the Channel parted long enough to show that the chase had al...

The Hunt for Red October

by Tom Clancy

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet su...

Two years before the mast

by Richard Henry Dana

I am unwilling to present this narrative to the public without a few words in explanation of my reasons for publishing i...

Master and Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

THE MUSIC-ROOM IN the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant...

Billy Budd

by Herman Melville

In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport ...

The shadow-line

by Joseph Conrad

ONLY the young have such moments.

A Tangled Tale

by Lewis Carroll