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.

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...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research project

by Thomas E. Pinelli

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

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

Tax administration

by United States. General Accounting Office

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

Laws, etc

by United States

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

Five Little Pigs

by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

Principles of Anatomy and Physiology

by Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson

Humans have many ways to maintain homeostasis, the state of relative stability of the body's internal environment.

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

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...

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle