Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain.

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research project

by Thomas E. Pinelli

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

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...

Tax administration

by United States. General Accounting Office

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

Laws, etc

by United States

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

KARENIN and his wife continued to live under the same roof, to meet every day, and yet to remain entire strangers to eac...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

Five Little Pigs

by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Principles of Anatomy and Physiology

by Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson

Humans have many ways to maintain homeostasis, the state of relative stability of the body's internal environment.

Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all.

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...