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The World Set Free
The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells, Ellen Marriage

The problem which was already being mooted by such scientific men as Ramsay, Rutherford, and Soddy, in the very beginnin...

1914 236 ed.
Brave New World
Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

1932 721 ed.
The Second World War
The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

AFTER the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in t...

1948 203 ed.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

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

457 ed.
The Lost World
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, ...

1900 747 ed.
The Magic World
The Magic World

by Edith Nesbit

To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed.

1959 352 ed.
Danny, The Champion of the World
Danny, The Champion of the World

by Roald Dahl

WHEN I WAS four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself.

1975 96 ed.
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours

by Jules Verne

MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.

1872 426 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
Evelina
Evelina

by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney

CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...

1778 204 ed.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

by Sir Isaac Newton

If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.

1687 104 ed.
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

1874 551 ed.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

1817 266 ed.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

AS I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that...

1678 683 ed.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

1883 157 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

1861 1489 ed.