History

by Herodotus

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

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 ...

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

Estaba tirado boca abajo, sobre una capa de agujas de pino color castaño, con la barbilla apoyada en los brazos cruzados...

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much...

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

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...

Elements

by Euclid

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch über den Urwald, das „Erlebte geschichten hieß“, ein prächtige...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

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 ...

Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Euthyphro: What are you doing at the courthouse, Socrates?

The Odyssey

by Όμηρος

Oresteia

by Aeschylus

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.