A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

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...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

Young Adult Library Services

by Anthony Bernier, Shari Lee

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

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, ...

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

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...

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.