Mémoires d'Hadrien

by Marguerite Yourcenar

My dear Mark, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey...

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...

Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

Que Stendhal confessasse haver escrito um de seus livros para cem leitores, coisa é que admira e consterna.

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

The House of the Dead

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN the remoter parts of Siberia, in the midst of the steppes, the mountains, or the pathless forests, lie scattered a fe...

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed.

Elephants Can Remember

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Oliver looked at herself in the glass.

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea ...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

A Mind That Found Itself

by Clifford Whittingham Beers

This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

John Barleycorn

by Jack London

IT all came to me one election day.

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.