The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)

Dear all,

Below you will find a link to English author Graham Greene's masterpiece The Heart of the Matter. Greene saw The Heart of the Matter as dealing with the issues of pity, failure, the price we all pay for our individualism and the impossibility of truly understanding another person,  the conflict of the individual and the church, and the tension of the individual and the state, among other things.

We hope you enjoy this thrilling novel!

The Heart of the Matter

The Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Hello, dear readers!

Here we drop off J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed trilogy (The Lord of the Rings), as well as its equally popular prequel (The Hobbit). As per usual, everything is in a single file.

Have fun reading!

The Lord of the Rings Collection

The Rainbow (Christina Rossetti)

Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier than these.
There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.

Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling)

Dear all,

Here we leave for your enjoyment J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter complete series. That means you've got the seven novels plus three other books and a one-chapter-long prequel (with a scan of Rowling's very own handwritten draft!).

Enjoy this bewitching series!

Harry Potter Prequel

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Hary Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Quidditch Through the Ages

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series (Douglas Adams)

Hello, everyone!

Here we share with you The Hitchkiher's Guide to the Galaxy series, a comic science fiction "trilogy" made up of six books, five of them written by the brilliant English writer Douglas Adams. The sixth and last installment of the series was written by Eoin Cofler after Adams' death.

We hope you enjoy this lovely series!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe, and Everything
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Mostly Harmless
And Another Thing...

Don't Bring Camels in the Classroom (Kenn Nesbitt)

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Don’t bring camels in the classroom.
Don’t bring scorpions to school.
Don’t bring rhinos, rats, or reindeer.
Don’t bring mice or moose or mule.
Pull your penguin off the playground.
Put your python in a tree.
Place your platypus wherever
you think platypi should be.
Lose your leopard and your lemur.
Leave your llama and your leech.
Take your tiger, toad, and toucan
anywhere but where they teach.
Send your wombat and your weasel
with your wasp and wolverine.
Hide your hedgehog and hyena
where you’re sure they won’t be seen.
Please get rid of your gorilla.
Please kick out your kangaroo.
No, the teacher didn’t mean it
when she called the class a "zoo."

Sherlock Holmes Complete Series (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hello, readers!

We bring to you the complete Sherlock Holmes series! Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and 4 novels. Here we offer a single file with the 60 stories at your disposition.

Table of contents (link at the end):

A Study In Scarlet - page 1

The Sign of the Four- page  63

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
A Scandal in Bohemia - page 119
The Red-Headed League- page  135
A Case of Identity- page  149
The Boscombe Valley Mystery - page 159
The Five Orange Pips - page 173
The Man with the Twisted Lip - page 185
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - page 199
The Adventure of the Speckled Band - page 211
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - page 225
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - page 237
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - page 249
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - page 263

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:
Silver Blaze - page 279
The Yellow Face - page 293
The Stock-Broker's Clerk - page 305
The "Gloria Scott" - page 315
The Musgrave Ritual - page 327
The Reigate Puzzle - page 339
The Crooked Man - page 351
The Resident Patient 361
The Greek Interpreter373
The Naval Treaty 385
The Final Problem 403

The Return of Sherlock Holmes:
The Adventure of the Empty House - page 417
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - page 429
The Adventure of the Dancing Men - page 443
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist - page 457
The Adventure of the Priory School - page 469
The Adventure of Black Peter - page 485
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - page 497
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons - page 507
The Adventure of the Three Students - page 519
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez - page 529
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter - page 543
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange - page 555
The Adventure of the Second Stain - page 569

The Hound of the Baskervilles - page 583
The Valley Of Fear - page 659

His Last Bow:
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge - page 743
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - page 761
The Adventure of the Red Circle - page 773
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans - page 787
The Adventure of the Dying Detective - page 803
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax - page 813
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - page 825
His Last Bow - page 839

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes:
The Illustrious Client - page 853
The Blanched Soldier - page 867
The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone - page 879
The Adventure of the Three Gables - page 889
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - page 899
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs - page 909
The Problem of Thor Bridge - page 919
The Adventure of the Creeping Man - page 933
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane - page 945
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger - page 957
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place - page 965
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman - page 975

We hope you like it!

Sherlock Holmes (Complete Series)

Little Things (Julia A. Carney)

Little drops of water,

Little drains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the beauteous land.

And the little moments,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

So our little errors

Lead the soul away,

From the paths of virtue

Into sin to stray.

Little deeds of kindness,

Little words of love,

Make our earth an Eden,
Like the heaven above.

James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)

Dear readers,

Today we want to share with you Roald Dahl's lovely James and the Giant Peach. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with six magically-altered garden bugs he meets. It sounds crazy, and it surely is - but we known you will love it.

Have fun reading!

James and the Giant Peach

The Hunger Games Trilogy (Suzanne Collins)

Hello, everyone!

We thought it would be nice to share with you The Hunger Games trilogy, written by the imaginative Suzanne Collins. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon contemporary reality television, the Greek myth of Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games for the story's framework. The trilogy is also told in the voice of the main character, Katniss Everdeen, which is a different and refreshing type of prose that we don't see very often in professional writing - which is a shame. First-person narrative, when done correctly, can be thoroughly enthralling.

Enjoy the story!

The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay

Above the Bright Blue Sky (Albert Midlane)

There's a Friend for little children
Above the bright blue sky,
A Friend who never changes
Whose love will never die;
Our earthly friends may fail us,
And change with changing years,
This Friend is always worthy
Of that dear name he bears.
There's a home for little children
Above the bright blue sky,
Where Jesus reigns in glory,
A home of peace and joy;
No home on earth is like it,
Nor can with it compare;
And everyone is happy,
Nor could be happier there.

The Wonderful Story of Hengry Sugar and Six More (Roald Dahl)

Hi, guys!

Perhaps you know Roald Dahl by his more popular works Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, et cetera. Well, today we bring you seven short stories of his that we're sure you will enjoy immensely.

Have a good read!

The Wonderful Story of Hengry Sugar and Six More

The Great Gatsby (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)

Dear everyone,

DiCaprio's performance in The Great Gatsby (2013) has certainly drawn a lot of attention - but many people don't know that there is a book behind the film! This wonderful masterpiece was written by the talented Francis Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. It depicts the age of the Roaring Twenties on a cautious note, regarding the American Dream under a new light.

Read and fall in love with it!

The Great Gatsby

The Crocodile (Roald Dahl)

No animal is half as vile
As Crocky–Wock, the crocodile.
On Saturdays he likes to crunch
Six juicy children for his lunch
And he especially enjoys
Just three of each, three girls, three boys.
He smears the boys (to make them hot)
With mustard from the mustard pot.
But mustard doesn't go with girls,
It tastes all wrong with plaits and curls.
With them, what goes extremely well
Is butterscotch and caramel.
It's such a super marvelous treat
When boys are hot and girls are sweet.
At least that's Crocky's point of view
He ought to know. He's had a few.
That's all for now. It's time for bed.
Lie down and rest your sleepy head.
Ssh. Listen. What is that I hear,
Galumphing softly up the stair?

Go lock the door and fetch my gun!
Go on child, hurry! Quickly run!
No stop! Stand back! He's coming in!
Oh, look, that greasy greenish skin!
The shining teeth, the greedy smile!
It's Crocky–Wock, the Crocodile!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6g7-V3mnw

Dear friends, we surely all agree (Roald Dahl)

Dear friends, we surely all agree
There's almost nothing worse to see
Than some repulsive little bum
Who's always chewing chewing gum.
(It's very near as bad as those
Who sit around and pick the nose).
So please believe us when we say
That chewing gum will never pay;
This sticky habit's bound to send
The chewer to a sticky end.
Did any of you ever know
A person called Miss Bigelow?
This dreadful woman saw no wrong
In chewing, chewing all day long.
She chewed while bathing in the tub,
She chewed while dancing at her club,
She chewed in church and on the bus;
It really was quite ludicrous!
And when she couldn't find her gum,
She'd chew up the linoleum,
Or anything that happened near–
A pair of boots, the postman's ear,
Or other people's underclothes,
And once she chewed her boy friend's nose.
She went on chewing till, at last,
Her chewing muscles grew so vast
That from her face her giant chin
Stuck out just like a violin.
For years and years she chewed away,
Consuming fifty packs a day,
Until one summer's eve, alas,
A horrid business came to pass.
Miss Bigelow went late to bed,
For half an hour she lay and read,
Chewing and chewing all the while
Like some great clockwork crocodile.
At last, she put her gum away
Upon a special little tray,
And settled back and went to sleep–
(She managed this by counting sheep).
But now, how strange! Although she slept,
Those massive jaws of hers still kept
On chewing, chewing through the night,
Even with nothing there to bite.
They were, you see, in such a groove
They positively had to move.
And very grim it was to hear
In pitchy darkness, loud and clear,
This sleeping woman's great big trap
Opening and shutting, snap–snap–snap!
Faster and faster, chop–chop–chop,
The noise went on, it wouldn't stop.
Until at last her jaws decide
To pause and open extra wide,
And with the most tremendous chew
They bit the lady's tongue in two.
Thereafter, just from chewing gum,
Miss Bigelow was always dumb,
And spent her life shut up in some
Disgusting sanatorium.
And that is why we'll try so hard
To save Miss Violet Beauregard
From suffering an equal fate.
She's still quite young. It's not too late,
Provided she survives the cure.

We hope she does. We can't be sure.

An Alphabet (Edward Lear)

A
A was once an apple pie,
Pidy
Widy
Tidy
Pidy
Nice insidy
Apple Pie!
B
B was once a little bear,
Beary!
Wary!
Hairy!
Beary!
Taky cary!
Little Bear!
C
C was once a little cake,
Caky
Baky
Maky
Caky
Taky Caky,
Little Cake!
D
D was once a little doll,
Dolly
Molly
Polly
Nolly
Nursy Dolly
Little Doll!
E
E was once a little eel,
Eely,
Weely
Peely
Eely
Twirly, Tweedy
Little Eel!
F
F was once a little fish,
Fishy
Wishy
Squishy
Fishy
In a Dishy
Little Fish!
G
G was once a little goose,
Goosy
Moosy
Boosy
Goosey
Waddly-woosy
Little Goose!
H
H was once a little hen,
Henny
Chenny
Tenny
Henny
Eggsy-any
Little Hen?
I
I was once a bottle of ink,
Inky
Dinky
Thinky
Inky
Black Minky
Bottle of Ink!
J
J was once a jar of jam,
Jammy
Mammy
Clammy
Jammy
Sweety-Swammy
Jar of Jam!
K
K was once a little kite,
Kity
Whity
Flighty
Kity
Out of sighty-
Little Kite!
L
L was once a little lark,
Larky!
Marky!
Harky!
Larky!
In the Parky,
Little Lark!
M
M was once a little mouse,
Mousey
Bousey
Sousy
Mousy
In the Housy
Little Mouse!

Vac by Trevor Harvey

Our vacuum cleaner has
Sucked up the cat
The morning paper
The kitchen mat
Two dozen spiders
A pair of shoes
A vest and panties
(I’m not sure whose)
Some CDs and
Cassettes galore
A nest of tables
The bathroom door
The electric cooker
The TV set
An ancient picture
Of my first pet
Our neighbor’s dog
The mailman, too
Our dining chairs
My father’s shoe
Some plastic bricks—
And what a drag!
I think I need to
Change the bag.

100 Selected Poems (E.E. Cummings)

Deares readers,

For those of you who enjoy poetry, here we leave a collection of the renowned American writer Edward Estlin Cummings (more commonly known as e e cummings).

Happy reading!

100 Selected Poems

Welcome to the Literary Jungle

Dearest readers,

Hello and welcome to this innovative blog where you will be able to search for and find refreshing reading material. We've got short stories, novels, poems, plays and more! Come and join us in our online literary experience. We hope you find something that is of your liking.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

C.S. Lewis