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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

1865 3546 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

1889 544 ed.
Fables
Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

1678 345 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
Plays (36)
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...

1623 256 ed.
It
It

by Stephen King

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, w...

1986 95 ed.
The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

If I had a penny for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I'd have—hang on a moment—£4.67.

1983 92 ed.
Yertle the turtle
Yertle the turtle

by Dr. Seuss

On the far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond, Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond.

1958 19 ed.
Wizard and Glass
Wizard and Glass

by Stephen King

The town of Candleton was a poisoned and irradiated ruin, but not dead; after all the centuries it still twitched with t...

1997 71 ed.
Fables
Fables

by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs

ONE hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come, just at the same time, to quench their thirst in the stream of ...

1489 109 ed.
Esio Trot
Esio Trot

by Roald Dahl

"Mrs. Silver," he said.

1990 61 ed.
Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)
Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and ...

by William Shakespeare

Many editions of Shakespeare's poems, and of the Sonnets in particular, present themselves as having solved some or all ...

1771 134 ed.
The Pink Fairy Book
The Pink Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang

Once upon a time there lived a cat of marvellous beauty, with a skin as soft and shining as silk, and wise green eyes, t...

1897 271 ed.
Franklin in the Dark (Franklin)
Franklin in the Dark (Franklin)

by Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda Clark

Franklin could slide down a riverbank all by himself.

1986 33 ed.
The Westing Game
The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

1978 16 ed.
Collected short stories
Collected short stories

by William Somerset Maugham

IT was not till the beginning of September that Ashenden, a writer by profession, who had been abroad at the outbreak of...

1900 44 ed.