Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Отцы и дети

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

THERE is one mind common to all individual men.

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...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

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

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.

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...

Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...

L'Homme révolté

by Albert Camus

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...

Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?