The Railway Children

by Edith Nesbit

The beginning of things - They were not railway children at the beginning...

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

That last time.

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

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 ...

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...

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

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 Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

IN MY JOURNEY through the wilderness of this world there came a time when I found myself caged up in a very dreary dunge...

Why Didn't they Ask Evans?

by Agatha Christie

Bobby Jones' teed up his ball, gave a short preliminary waggle, took the club back slowly, then brought it down and thro...

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor

A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to ...

Taken at the Flood

by Agatha Christie

WARMSLEY Heath consists of a Golf Course, two Hotels, some very expensive modern villas giving onto the Golf Course, a r...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.

The Old Man in the Corner

by Emma Orczy

The Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux

EVER SINCE CHILDHOOD, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wis...

National Series of Waterway, Tramway and Railway Atlases

by G.L. Crowther

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

MR. AND MRS. BROWN first met Paddington on a railway platform.

Perelandra

by C. S. Lewis

AS I LEFT the railway station at Worchester and set out on the three-mile walk to Ransom's cottage, I reflected that no ...