The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

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

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

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...

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

Elements

by Euclid

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

Carrie

by Stephen King

Fuentes fidedigmas nos informan de que el 17 del presente se produjo una lluvia de piedras en la calle Carlin, en circun...

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...

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

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

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen