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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

1892 1132 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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...

1876 2622 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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...

1865 3546 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

1889 544 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
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...

1686 2420 ed.
Treasure Island
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...

1880 1988 ed.
2001
2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

1968 116 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

AS I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that...

1678 683 ed.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

1908 1299 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

1862 526 ed.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
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 ...

1870 383 ed.
The Railway Children
The Railway Children

by Edith Nesbit

The beginning of things - They were not railway children at the beginning...

1900 985 ed.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

1920 1091 ed.
The Turn of the Screw
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...

1898 563 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

1843 3198 ed.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

1877 107 ed.
Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

THE WEATHER DOOR OF THE SMOKING-ROOM HAD BEEN LEFT open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, w...

1896 990 ed.
The Boxcar Children
The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

ONE WARM NIGHT four children stood in front of a bakery.

1924 87 ed.
The Curse of Capistrano
The Curse of Capistrano

by Johnston McCulley

Again the sheet of rain beat against the roof of red Spanish tile, and the wind shrieked like a soul in torment, and smo...

1919 225 ed.