Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

Perfume

by Patrick Süskind

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that k...

A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

This book was born as I was hungry.

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

Fᴜ̈ʀ ᴅɪᴇ ᴇʀsᴛᴇ Aᴜsɢᴀʙᴇ dieses Buches habe ich kein Vorwort geschrieben – das hat freundlicherweise damal Carl Sagan über...

Naturalis historia

by Pliny the Elder

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Bambi

by Felix Salten

He came into the world in the middle of the thicket, in one of those little, hidden forest glades which seem to be entir...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Il giorno più caldo dell’estate – almeno fino a quel momento – volgeva al termine e un silenzio sonnacchioso gravava sul...

Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und vo...

by Michael Ende

In alten Zeite, als die Menschen noch in ganz anderen Sprachen redeten, gab es in den warmen Ländern schon große und prä...

Der Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

THE DAY HAD GONE BY JUST AS DAYS GO BY.

Max Ernst

by Max Ernst, Werner Spies

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.