Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)

by Jerome Klapka Jérôme

THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

The Railway Children

by Edith Nesbit

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

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

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...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Bible

by Bible

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

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

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

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.