The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of ligh...

HEIDI is a delightful story for children of life in the Alps, one of many tales written by the Sw...

I glanced up. The captain had thrust his head and shoulders out of the pilot-house, and was stari...

That blow was the last of the battle. Once out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, s...

'The Happy Prince' In a town where a lot of poor people suffer, a swallow who was left behind aft...

The creature dodged back, and the blow that would have crushed its skull grazed a hairbreadth fro...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula a...

We arrived at last at a wide cavern with an arched domelike roof. An aperture in the midst let in...

The tempest had raged for six days, and on the seventh seemed to increase. The ship had been so f...

Here Sir Winston S. Churchill -- the same man who would go on to lead the free world through its ...

Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a s...

HENRY FIELDING COMPARES JONATHAN WILD, HIGHWAY BANDIT WITH CAESAR -- AND FINDS CAESAR WANTING'. ....