Elements

by Euclid

Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A GLANCE at the occupational statistics of any country of mixed religious composition brings to light with remarkable fr...

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.

Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

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

Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

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

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

They Came to Baghdad

by Agatha Christie

Captain Crosbie came out of the bank with the pleased air of one who has cashed a cheque and has discovered that there i...

Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de