Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit

The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes, the chil...

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

by Albert Einstein

In your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid's geometry, and yo...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD THIS story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.

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...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

IN SOME INSTANCES THIS TRANSLATION MAY RESIST IMMEDIATE understanding.

Phantastes

by George MacDonald

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

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 ...

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming fr...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'