Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

Mutual Aid

by Peter Kropotkin

Struggle for existence.

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

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

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

Государство и революция

by Vladimir Il’ich Lenin

What is now happening to Marx's teaching has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the teachings of revoluti...

The Cat in the Hat

by Dr. Seuss, Simon Mugford

Es gist nokh a regn.

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor

A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to ...

Ἀνάβασις

by Xenophon

DARIUS and Parysatis had two sons.

Frog and Toad Are Friends

by Arnold Lobel

Frog ran up the path to Toad's house.

Dream Psychology

by Sigmund Freud

Cyropaedia

by Xenophon

Xenophon's Education of Cyrus offers its own introduction, one that helps turn the reader's attention to the core issues...