Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

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...

Elements

by Euclid

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

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...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

'Salem’s Lot

by Stephen King

Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

'WHAT'S it going to be then, eh?'

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.

Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

Salomé

by Oscar Wilde

SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

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 ...

As a man thinketh

by James Allen

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...

History

by Herodotus