Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

The Ambassadors

by Henry James

STRETHER'S FIRST question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was appare...

John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

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...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!'" No answer. ''Tom!" No answer. ''What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!" No answer.

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

Down in the valley there were three farms.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

The Club of Queer Trades

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called fl...

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.