The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

Art Through the Ages

by Helen Gardner

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

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

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.