Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...

Vom Kriege

by Carl von Clausewitz

One might rightly be taken aback that a woman would dare write a preface for such a work as this.

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

Смерть Ивана Ильича

by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs

During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met ...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

IT is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ALS ICH SECHS Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch uber den Urwald, das ,,Erlebte Geschichten" hei , ein prachtig...

Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen

Medea

by Euripides

The Scene represents the front of MEDEA'S House in Corinth.

Poems

by William Blake

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

The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

THE DAUGHTER: [in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left] I'm getting chilled to the bone.