Kritik der reinen Vernunft

by Immanuel Kant

IN whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear, that the on...

Les Robots

by Isaac Asimov

I looked at my notes and I didn't like them.

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provide...

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD THIS story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.

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 ...

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

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

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Peu de textes ont eu dans l'histoire un retentissement aussi profond et aussi durable que le Manifeste du Parti communis...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

ON MAY 7, 1931, THE MOST SENSATIONAL MANHUNT NEW YORK CITY had ever known had come to its climax.

Hong lou meng

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

Tao te Ching

by 老子

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

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...

Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

Dell'Arte della Guerra

by Niccolò Machiavelli

MANY ARE now of the opinion, my dear Lorenzo, that no two things are more discordant and incongruous than a civil and a ...

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I had reason enough in the last few months--but even if I had, I...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...

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,...