Found 1,284 results for "Peter Watts"
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...
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 ...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.
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 ...
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...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
by Charles Kingsley
Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.
Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
