Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...

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 ...

Essay concerning human understanding

by John Locke

Since it is the UNDERSTANDING that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and domin...

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 Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

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...

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

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 ...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

Medea

by Euripides

The Scene represents the front of MEDEA'S House in Corinth.

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

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

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur

by Maurice Leblanc

IT was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.