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...

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with i...

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with [Egeon] the Merchant of Syracusa, Jailer, and other Attendants.

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

BRIAN ROBESON stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

Schweizerische Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

Relato de un náufrago

by Gabriel García Márquez

Alive!

by Piers Paul Read

Uruguay, one of the smallest countries on the South American continent, was founded on the eastern bank of the River Pla...

Julie of the Wolves

by Jean Craighead George

MIYAX PUSHED BACK THE HOOD OF HER SEALSKIN parka and looked at the Arctic sun.

Unbroken

by Laura Hillenbrand

Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Kensuke's kingdom

by Michael Morpurgo

I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday.

In the Heart of the Sea

by Nathaniel Philbrick

IT WAS, HE LATER REMEMBERED, "the most pleasing moment of my life"-the moment he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for ...

Touching the void

by Joe Simpson, Joe Simpson

I was lying in my sleeping bag, staring at the light filtering through the red and green fabric of the dome tent.

The Cay

by Theodore Taylor

Like silent, hungry sharks, the German U-boats arrived in the middle of the night.

South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

I HAD DECIDED to leave South Georgia about December 5, and in the intervals of final preparation scanned again the plans...