The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Há bastante tempo, o autor tem a opinião de que muitos dos mitos clássicos poderiam se tornar uma excelente leitura para...

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 Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

IT WAS NOT TONY LEMLICH'S HABIT TO SPEND TIME ON THE shooting set of one of the pictures he had written.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

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

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

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 Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.