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...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Les deux hommes surgirent de nulle part, à quelques mètres l’un de l’autre, sur le chemin étroit éclairé par la lune. Pe...

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

Good wives

by Louisa May Alcott

IN ORDER THAT we may start fresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip ...

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

Hong lou meng

by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin., (qing) Cao, xue qin

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

Crónica de una muerte anunciada

by Gabriel García Márquez, Francis Salvery

El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el...

White Nights and other stories [7 stories]

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Como agua para chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

Take care to chop the onion fine.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...

The Sea of Monsters

by Rick Riordan

My nightmare started like this.

Skeleton crew

by Stephen King

This is what happened.

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

I WAS BORN in the city of Bombay... once upon a time.

The Wedding

by Julie Garwood

Donald MacAlister didn't die easy.