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...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind.

The city in history

by Lewis Mumford

What is the city?

Treaties, etc

by Rand McNally

The Road to Serfdom

by Friedrich A. von Hayek

Thinking, fast and slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

Prospectives of pi-interactions in biological systems.

The Elegant Universe

by Brian Greene

Calling it a cover-up would be far too dramatic.

Implementation of the Helsinki accords

by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope

The Gilded Age

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

June 18-. Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the "stile," in front of his house, contemplating ...

Children of rural areas

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett

THEY SAY that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the...