In the cheapest room of a big block of furnished apartments Stepan Klotchkov, a medical student in his third year, was walking to and fro, zealously conning his anatomy. In the...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest collection of detective short stories ever written. From his residence at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes solves a...

It once occurred to a King that if he knew the right moment when to begin on any work and the right kind of people to have or not to have dealings with and the thing to do that...

The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. 

An epistolary novel telling the story of a beautiful 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted and inappropriate advances...

Alice is feeling bored while sitting on the riverbank when she notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch running past. She follows it down a rabbit hole falling...

Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18 year old Caroline Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have...

"The Romance of Lust" is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. William...

"The Burning Secret" is a short story about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s.Stefan...

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English...