Reading Help

To improve English reading skills ESL student has to read as many newspapers, online books and articles as she can find, and do it regularly. This page helps to speed up reading time and improve English reading skills.

All online books here are prearranged for English reading by making each word into a link so you can easily look-up word definition or translation simply by clicking on it. Numerous language dictionaries and English references are available so simply change the reference source and click on the same word to look it up again in a different reference source.

For more online books see Project Gutenberg and use ESL Reader

Use Dictionaries while learning English online. It loads references and dictionaries in a popup window. Once window is open you can reposition and resize it to your liking.

Online Books with linked dictionaries and references.

Children's/Juvenile literature

Peter-pan [PETER AND WENDY] BY J. M. BARRIE [James Matthew Barrie]

Aesop's Fables Collection of short Aesop's Fables

Alice's adventure in wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (Chapters I - XV)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapters XVI - XXXV)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson(Chapters I - III)

Treasure Island (Chapters IV - VI)

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (Part I )

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (Part II, III, IV )

Adventure

Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (1828-1905) (Chapters I - VI)

Around the world in eighty days (Chapters VII - XIII)

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Chapters 1 - 18)

The Three Musketeers (Chapters 19 - 40)

The Three Musketeers (Chapters 41 - 67)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] (Chapters 1 - 10)

The Count of Monte Cristo(Chapters 11 - 39)

The Count of Monte Cristo(Chapters 40 - 74)

The Count of Monte Cristo(Chapters 75 - 117)

Mystery Detective

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I - IV)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (V - VIII)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (IX - XII)

Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie. (Chapters I - XIII)

Secret Adversary (Chapters XIV-XXVIII)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. (Chapters I - VI)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Chapters VII - XIII)

Horror

Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897 (Chapters 1 - 12)

Dracula (Chapters 13 - 27)

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley (Chapters 1 - 9)

Frankenstein (Chapters 10 - 24)

Science fiction

War of the worlds by H. G. Wells. Book 1

War of the worlds Book 2

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells [1898]

Philosophy and Science

Beyond good and evil BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Relativity: The Special and General Theory BY ALBERT EINSTEIN

English

ECLECTIC SPELLING BOOK by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.c [1879]

How to speak and write correctly By JOSEPH DEVLIN. (Chapters I - VI)

How to speak and write correctly (Chapters VII - XV)



William Shakespeare

Books for English learners by famous English poet and playwright.