History

by Herodotus

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

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...

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The Incompleteness of the Ethics.

Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

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, ...

Ancient civilizations

by Christopher Scarre