Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

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.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

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...

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

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

The Enchanted Castle

by Edith Nesbit

There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night.

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

The Horse and His Boy

by C. S. Lewis

THIS IS THE STORY OF AN ADVENTURE that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Pet...