Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The Incompleteness of the Ethics.

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

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

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Les confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he...

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...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At last I was back after my two weeks' absence.

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.

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!