Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Es zieht mich stets dorthin zurück, wo ich einmal gelebt habe, zu den Häusern, der Gegend.

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming i...

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665

by Daniel Defoe

IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...

Mémoires d'Hadrien

by Marguerite Yourcenar

My dear Mark, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

Paul Klee

by Paul Klee

Lord Edgware Dies

by Agatha Christie

THE memory of the public is short.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I WILL BEGIN the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

1 The Psalms sung throughout the world.

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

That last time.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...