Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

THE religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct.

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

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 anybody else, these page...

The House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet.

As a man thinketh

by James Allen

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

HAVE you heard of the great Forest of Burzee?

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark,

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Barnardo. Who's there?

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

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...

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L. Frank Baum

THE train from 'Frisco was very late.

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1626, the market-town of Meung, in which the author of the "Romance of the ro...

Ozma of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface.