Anatomy

by Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter

THE entire skeleton in the adult consists of 200 distinct bones.

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

The A.B.C. Murders

by Agatha Christie

It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.

The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

Elements

by Euclid

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

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...

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

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...

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...