Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)

by Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Marshall C. Yovits

In the early days of software development, much attention was given to issues related to the design of algorithms and da...

The science of getting rich, or, financial success through c...

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or success...

English grammar

by Lindley Murray

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

Il giorno più caldo dell’estate – almeno fino a quel momento – volgeva al termine e un silenzio sonnacchioso gravava sul...

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Hong lou meng

by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin., (qing) Cao, xue qin

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

THERE'S A BOARDINGHOUSE NOT FAR FROM HERE.

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)

by Jerome Klapka Jérôme

THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Paramo, lived there.

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.