The Norton Anthology of World Literature

by Martin Puchner, Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

The Magic World

by Edith Nesbit

To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed.

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...

The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours

by Jules Verne

MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

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

Evelina

by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney

CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late in the evening when K. arrived.

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

AS I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

HAVE you heard of the great Forest of Burzee?

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."