The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, someone called Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West and Jin Ping Me...

The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides

by Moses Maimonides

MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Dell'Arte della Guerra

by Niccolò Machiavelli

MANY ARE now of the opinion, my dear Lorenzo, that no two things are more discordant and incongruous than a civil and a ...

Sein und Zeit

by Martin Heidegger

If it serves its purpose, this entire book will be an introduction to the question of Being in the thought of Martin Hei...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.

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...

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

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

The Richest Man in Babylon

by George S. Clason

BANSIR, the chariot builder of Babylon, was thoroughly discouraged.

The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"Please, miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...