Noli Me Tangere

by José Rizal

Towards the end of October, Don Santiago de los Santos, popularly known as Capitan Tiago, was hosting a dinner which, in...

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to open, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

Max Ernst

by Max Ernst, Werner Spies

Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (r...

When the Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

Justine

by Marquis de Sade

Schachnovelle

by Stefan Zweig

Auf dem großen Passagierdampfer, der um Mitternacht von New York nach Buenos Aires abgehen sollte, herrschte die übliche...

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed.

The science of getting rich, or, financial success through c...

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or success...

The Last Man

by Mary Shelley

I visited Naples in the year 1818.