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

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hong lou meng

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

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...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

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...

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 Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Crónica de una muerte anunciada

by Gabriel García Márquez, Francis Salvery

ON THE DAY THEY WERE GOING TO KILL him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bis...

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.

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

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

Skeleton crew

by Stephen King

This is what happened.

The wedding

by Nicholas Sparks

It's heartbreaking to think that your wife may not love you, and that night, after Jane had carried the perfume up to ou...

Busman's honeymoon

by Dorothy L. Sayers

So Peter is really married: I have ordered willow-wreaths for half my acquaintance.