Il Piccolo Principe (Antoine De Saint- Exupéry)

tutti i grandi sono stati bambini una volta (ma pochi di essi se ne ricordano)

Il giardino segreto

Una bambina viziata, bruttina, dispotica rimane l'unica soppravvisuta dopo un'epidemia di colera che uccide tutti, padre, madre e servitú, lasciandola sola al mondo. L'unico parente é un eccentrico zio inglese, che vive isolato in un castello in mezzo alla brughiera. Mary un po' alla volta viene in contatto con il fig...

Mansfield Park (1814)

Fanny Price is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with her own parents, Lieut. Price and his wife, Frances (Fanny), Lady Bertram's sister. Sh...

Villette

After a family disaster our protagonist, Lucy Snowe, travels to Villette where she teaches at an all girl's school and gets wrapped up in romance and adventures.

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR [1984] (Completed)

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulatio...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

David Copperfield (1850)

The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his father. David spends his early years with his mother and their housekeeper, Peggotty. When he is seven years old, his mot...

Le due città (Dickens)

Racconto di due città è un romanzo storico di Charles Dickens del 1859. Il romanzo segue le vite di diversi protagonisti attraverso questi eventi, in particolare Charles Darnay, un ex-aristocratico francese che diviene vittima di accuse indiscriminate durante la rivoluzione, e Sydney Carton, un avvocato inglese che ce...

Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis - Ugo Foscolo

Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, pubblicato nel 1802, è un romanzo di Ugo Foscolo, considerato il primo romanzo epistolare della letteratura italiana, nel quale sono raccolte le 67 lettere che il protagonista, Jacopo Ortis, mandò all'amico Lorenzo Alderani, che dopo il suicidio di Jacopo le avrebbe date alla stampa cor...

POLLYANNA (Completed)

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. Also, the subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna princ...

The Professor

The first of Charlotte Bronte's works. A story of William Crimsworth from his perspective on his maturation, career, and relationships.

Great Expectations (1861)

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive olde...

L'arte di prender marito

Jane Eyre - C. Bronte

Impossibile far la passeggiata quel giorno. La mattina, invece, avevamo errato un 'ora per le macchie spoglie, ma dopo pranzo (la signora Reed , quando non aveva compagnia, pranzava presto) il freddo vento invernale aveva ammassato delle nuvole così cupe, e cadeva una pioggia così insistente, che di andare fuori non s...

Agnes Grey (Anne Brönte)

Il libro della terza delle sorelle Brönte, che mancava in Wattpad, dopo Cime tempestose e Jane Eyre.

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio_ Jane Austen

E' cosa ormai risaputa che a uno scapolo in possesso di vistoso patrimonio manchi soltanto una moglie. Questa verità è così radicata nella mente della maggio parte delle famiglie che, quando un giovane scapolo viene a far parte del vicinato - prima ancora di avere il più lontano sentore di quelli che possono essere i...

Oliver Twist (1837)

The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.

Rosso Malpelo - Giovanni Verga

L'isola Misteriosa - Jules Verne.

Durante l'assedio di Richmond nel 1865 nella guerra di secessione americana cinque prigionieri ; Cyrus Smith, Gideon Spilett, Nabucodonosor, Bonadventure Pencroff e Herbert Brown, decidono di fuggire dalla città in una maniera piuttosto inusuale, rubando un pallone a gas. Dopo numerosi giorni di volo in balia di una...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870) (Completed)

In 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest is a giant narwhal. The US government assembles an expedition to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist (and narrator within the story) receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition...

Far from the Madding Crowd (Completed)

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is the first to be set in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in rural south-west England. It d...

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Completed )

Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volc...

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Completed)

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000...

Little Women (1880)

"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...

Jane Eyre (1847)

"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.

A LITTLE PRINCESS (Completed)

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887. The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (...

The Secret Garden (Completed)

The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911 after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage...

Agnes Grey (Completed)

This is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847 ( and originally written under the pen name, Acton Bell). The novel follows governess Agnes Grey as she works with the families of the English gentry, and is considered to be largely based on Brontë's own experiences as a governes...