Read the classic children's book "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell. Narrated by a horse named Black Beauty, this story recounts events in his life from trials to tribulations.

Read the full text of the novel "The Border Legion" by Zane Grey. This western has all the classic elements such as outlaws, gold fever, and a damsel in distress.

Read this gripping story of lives haunted by the sea in the short story "To-morrow" by Joseph Conrad.

A burglar is confronted by a young boy while robbing his house in "Tommy's Burglar" by O. Henry. Read the full text on this site.

A young woman is disowned by her father for marrying an actor with no fixed home or income in "A Tragic Actor" by Anton Chekhov. Read the full text of this short story on this site.

Read the full text of "When the Sleeper Wakes" about a man who awakes after 203 years to find that he is now the richest man in the world.

Read the full text of the coming of age story "Bound to Rise" by Horatio Alger about a young boy who leaves home in search of work to help his family through a financial hardship.

Read the full text of "Under the Red Robe" by Stanley J. Weyman which takes place during the French religious wars in the 17th century.

Read all thirteen books in the autobiography "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" by St. Augustine. St. Augustine discusses his sinful past and conversion to Christianity.

Read the full text of "Aaron's Rod" by D.H. Lawrence set in England and Italy after WWI. Follow a man as he travels to Italy to attain his dream of becoming a professional musician.

Read the full text of "Anne of the Island" by Lucy Maud Montgomery which is the third book in the "Anne of Green Gables" series.

Read the full text of "Anne's House of Dreams" by Lucy Maud Montgomery and is the fifth book in the "Anne of Green Gables" series.

Read the full text of the short story "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde about the friendship between a swallow and a statue of the Happy Prince set in a town struggling with poverty.

Read the full text of the short story "Il Conde" by Joseph Conrad about crime gangs in Naples.

Take a glimpse into the social practices of teens in the early 20th century and read the full text of the short story "Her First Ball" by Katherine Mansfield about a young girl's first dance.

Read the full text of the short story "A Gentleman Friend" by Anton Chekhov about a penniless woman who visits a man she met in a cafe with the goal of asking to borrow money.

Read the full text of "Behind the Line: A Story of College Life and Football" by Ralph Henry Barbour. The story is set in the year 1900.

Read the full text of the short story "Three Scenes in the Life of a Worldling" by Mary Roberts Rinehart who has been called the American Agatha Christie.

A young woman encounters a burglar in her home in the short story "To Kill a Man" by Jack London. Read the full text on this site.

Read the full text of "Won by the Sword" by G.A. Henty which takes place in the latter part of the 30 Years' War in France.

Read about middle-class life in pre-Civil War America in the novel "All's for the Best" by T.S. Arthur.

Read the full text of the romantic story "The Amazing Interlude" by Mary Roberts Rinehart about a young woman who serves in the Red Cross in Belgium during WWI.

Read the full text of the short story "The Girl in Red" by Stewart Edward White.

A Wall Street banker helps get a former colleague out of trouble in the short story "A Wasted Day". Read the full text by Richard Harding Davis on this site.