Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

Down in the valley there were three farms.

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire

by Thomas Hardy

To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

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 ...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

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 ...

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.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

Gorin no sho

by Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson

Martial arts are the warrior's way of life.

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where do...