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...

Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

OUR long months of preparation and planning for the greatest amphibious operation in history ended on D Day, Tune 6, 104...

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...

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

The Lost Symbol

by Dan Brown

Meus sinceros agradecimentos a três amigos queridos com quem tenho a grande honra de trabalhar: meu editor, Jason Kaufma...

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

riverrun,past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend if bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back ...

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...