The Sea Fairies

by L. Frank Baum

"Nobody," said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale."

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...

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 6....

The Enchanted Castle

by Edith Nesbit

There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...

The BFG

by Roald Dahl

It wasn't a human.

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

CORALINE DISCOVERED THE DOOR a little while after they moved into the house.

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

IT WAS NOT TONY LEMLICH'S HABIT TO SPEND TIME ON THE shooting set of one of the pictures he had written.

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, expect one, grow up.

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

The Book of Dragons

by Edith Nesbit

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

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 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 Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.