Schachnovelle

by Stefan Zweig

Auf dem großen Passagierdampfer, der um Mitternacht von New York nach Buenos Aires abgehen sollte, herrschte die übliche...

Laws, etc

by United States

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Peu de textes ont eu dans l'histoire un retentissement aussi profond et aussi durable que le Manifeste du Parti communis...

Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

'WHAT'S it going to be then, eh?'

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

THE DAUGHTER: [in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left] I'm getting chilled to the bone.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

The Witches

by Roald Dahl

I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old.

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the cle...

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kinder- und Hausmärchen

by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]

Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman.

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde

When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish ...

Kritik der reinen Vernunft

by Immanuel Kant

IN whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear, that the on...

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roo...

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unrega...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.