Il Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Dante and Beatrice are at the threshold of Heaven.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

Exercitia spiritualia

by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Aloysio R.P Bellecio

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott, Success Oceo

If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mr...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I WILL BEGIN the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

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,...

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...

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...