The distance between us

by Reyna Grande

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank

I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

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

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...

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...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

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...

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.

Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

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 Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

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, ...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

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.