William Doherty

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs.

William Doherty

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

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 House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

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...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

Le roman du masque de fer

by Alexandre Dumas

SINCE Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

¿Has oído hablar, amigo lector, siquiera alguna vez, de Stephen Crane?

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.