Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.

Misery

by Stephen King

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!'" No answer. ''Tom!" No answer. ''What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!" No answer.

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

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

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

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...

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...

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba...

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

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

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

Murder in Three Acts

by Agatha Christie

MR. Satterthwaite sat on the terrace of Crow's Nest and watched his host, Sir Charles Cartwright, climbing up the path f...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.