On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of ...

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

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...

Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

Down in the valley there were three farms.

Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

When the Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

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...

Sparkling Cyanide

by Agatha Christie

Iris Marle was thinking about her sister, Rosemary.

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

I 24 WAS SPITEFUL.