Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

DEINDE CONSIDERANDUM EST de præsidentia angelorum super creaturam corporalem.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

Exercitia spiritualia

by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Aloysio R.P Bellecio

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

THIS JOURNEY took place in a part of Canada which lies in the northwestern part of the great sprawling province of Ontar...

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

El filibusterismo

by José Rizal

One December morningm the steamship Tabo struggled upstream along the winding Pasig, carrying a great number of passenge...

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St. A...

Ἀνάβασις

by Xenophon

DARIUS and Parysatis had two sons.

Le Corbusier

by Le Corbusier

"Mit 17 Jahren hatte ich das Gluck, einen Bauherrn kennen zu lernen, der mir ohne Vorurteile sein Bauvorhaben anvertraut...

Surfacing

by Margaret Atwood

I can't believe I'm on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is s...

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 ...

La tulipe noire

by Alexandre Dumas

ON THE 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim, that one might believe every...

Sailing alone around the world

by Joshua Slocum

IN the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fun...

Illusions perdues

by Honoré de Balzac

AT the time when this story begins, the Stanhope press and inking-rollers were not yet in use in small provincial printi...

Speeches

by Cicero

Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

The Prussian Commander, Major Graf von Farlsberg, was finishing the reading of his mail, comfortably seated in a large t...