White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

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.

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 Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

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...

Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

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...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"

The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a sw...

Anne's House of Dreams

by Lucy Maud Montgomery