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History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...
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...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!
Satyricon
by Petronius
[Encolpius is in full flow:] 'This, surely, is the same band of Furies goading our teachers of rhetoric when they cry: "...
Die unendliche Geschichte
by Michael Ende
This inscription could be seen on the glass door of a small shop, but naturally this was only the way it looked if you w...
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
SCENE: Argos, Greece, in front of the palace of AGAMEMNON, the king, high on a hill overlooking the sea.
Nova Atlantis
by Francis Bacon
WE sailed from Peru (where we had continued by the space of one whole year), for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taki...
The Red Thumb Mark
by R. Austin Freeman
CONFLAGRATAM An 1677. Fabricatarn An 1698. Richardo Powell Armiger Thesaurar." The words, set in four panels, which form...
Gender Trouble
by Judith Butler
For the most part, feminist theory has assumed that there is some existing identity, understood through the category of ...
On food and cooking
by Harold McGee
What better subject for the first chapter than the food with which we all begin our lives?
Our Old Home
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderab...
