Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

Depuis Voltaire, une longue tradition critique voit en Pascal à la fois un grand auteur classique et un dangereux séduct...

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Elements

by Euclid

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

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...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Anne of Ingleside

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

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.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

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.

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.