The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

Carmilla

by Sheridan Le Fanu

Sobre una hoja de papel adherida a la narración que sigue, el doctor Hesselius ha escrito una nota bastante elaborada, n...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Peu de textes ont eu dans l'histoire un retentissement aussi profond et aussi durable que le Manifeste du Parti communis...

The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that ev...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.