Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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.

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

Tik-Tok of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"I won't!" cried Ann; I won't sweep the floor.

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

Martin Eden

by Jack London

A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

Tom Sawyer, Detective

by Mark Twain

Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaw...

Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.

Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

IT was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L. Frank Baum

THE train from 'Frisco was very late.

An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

DUSK-of a summer night.

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

Ozma of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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