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πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
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.
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
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
OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...
De rerum natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...
Bonjour tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.
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...
A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...
Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...
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 go to do with a room of one's own?