His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research project

by Thomas E. Pinelli

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...

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...

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

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 Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Žmonės, geižiantys įgyti valdovo palankumą, paprastai stengiasi jam įsiteikti tuo, ką turi brangiausia, arba tuo, ką, jų...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.

Le rouge et le noir

by Stendhal

Verrieres is no doubt one of the prettiest small towns in Franche-Comte.

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...