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2001
2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

1968 116 ed.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

1915 954 ed.
La Poetica
La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

1479 498 ed.
Confessions
Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

1482 449 ed.
Decamerone
Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

1516 700 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Cien años de soledad
Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde rem...

1967 204 ed.
Бѣсы
Бѣсы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...

1871 171 ed.
Book of common prayer
Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

1537 545 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

1486 537 ed.
Ἰλιάς
Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

1505 1084 ed.
War and Peace
War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.

1864 642 ed.
Meditations
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

1626 642 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

1488 1063 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

1603 2377 ed.