The Agony and the Ecstasy

by Irving Stone

HE SAT before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat bro...

The sword in the stone

by T. H. White

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Orga...

Back to the Stone Age (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Art Through the Ages

by Helen Gardner

Stone age economics

by Marshall Sahlins

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Yogananda Paramahansa

THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'Tom!' No answer.

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

À bien des égards, Harry Potter était un garçon des plus singuliers. Tout d’abord, il détestait les vacances d’été, c’ét...

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

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 ...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I WILL BEGIN the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

Die kleinen Jungen waren die ersten, die zum Richtplatz kamen.

Bible

by Bible

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

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences