The Gunslinger

by Stephen King

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Il giorno più caldo dell’estate – almeno fino a quel momento – volgeva al termine e un silenzio sonnacchioso gravava sul...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

by Roald Dahl

THE LAST TIME WE SAW CHARLIE, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Elevator.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

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 ...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...

Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit

The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the childr...

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...

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...

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...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME, shall not walk in darkness" (John 8:12), saith the Lord.

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much...

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

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

To SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman.