The Two Towers

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Aragorn chvátal do kopce. Co chvíli se shýbal k zemi. Hobiti totiž chodí lehce a jejich stopy nepřečte snadno ani Hranič...

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

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...

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...

The Dead Zone

by Stephen King

The two things Sarah remembered about that night later were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune and the mask.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

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

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

Laws, etc

by United States

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

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

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.

Julius Caesar

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...