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

by Edward Gibbon

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

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

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

History

by Herodotus

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer

HO Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been will...

Satyricon

by Petronius

[Encolpius is in full flow:] 'This, surely, is the same band of Furies goading our teachers of rhetoric when they cry: "...

The Last Days of Pompeii

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

HO, Diomed, well met!

The Sixth Extinction

by Elizabeth Kolbert, Marcel Blanc

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Plutarchi Vitae parallelae

by Plutarch

Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...

River god

by Wilbur Smith

THE RIVER LAY HEAVILY UPON THE desert, bright as a spill of molten metal from a furnace.

Salammbô

by Gustave Flaubert

THESE clamourings of the populace did not alarm Hamilcar's daughter.

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

MEU PAI ERA REI E FILHO DE REIS.

Troilus and Criseyde

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope