Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

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...

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 Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

Skeleton crew

by Stephen King

This is what happened.

Frenzied fiction

by Stephen Leacock

In many people the very name "Spy" excites a shudder of apprehension; we Spies, in fact, get quite used to being shudder...

Hearts in Atlantis

by Stephen King

Bobby Garfield's father had been one of those fellows who start losing their hair in their twenties and are completely b...

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing ha...

The secret of Father Brown

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Flambeau, einst der berüchtigtste Verbrecher Frankreichs, später Privatdetektiv in England, hate beide Beschäftigungen s...

Short stories

by Franz Kafka

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

by Raymond Carver

Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

The People of the Mist

by H. Rider Haggard

The January afternoon was passing into night, the air was cold and still, so still that not a single twig of the naked b...

Wieland

by Charles Brockden Brown

I feel little reluctance in complying with your request.