The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...

Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

Dune

by Frank Herbert

A Beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...

A Study in Scarlet

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...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

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 Alhambra

by Washington Irving

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...

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The works of Washington Irving

by Washington Irving

A Feast for Crows

by George R. R. Martin

"Dragons," said Mollander.

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

by Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Gaël Fain

IT WAS not by a slip that an analogy from the world of religion was permitted to intrude into the title of this chapter.

Twice-Told Tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There was once a time, when New-England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs, than those threatened ones ...

Muhammad

by Karen Armstrong

It has been difficult for Western people to understand the violent Muslim reaction to Salman Rushdie's fictional portrai...

Greenmantle

by John Buchan

I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram.