The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

The Stones of Venice

by John Ruskin

I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...

Metamorphoses

by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington

What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...

Ἀνάβασις

by Xenophon

Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.

Dei delitte e delle pene

by Cesare Beccaria

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is known almost exclusively as the author of On Crimes and Punishments, a short book on crim...

An essay on man

by Alexander Pope

HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...

Frank Lloyd Wright

by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Haunted Mask

by Robert Lawrence Stine

"What are you going to be for Halloween?"

Metodo della pedagogia scientifica

by Maria Montessori

I do not intend to elaborate a treatise on the science of education: these preliminary notes have the modest end of sett...

Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozō Meijiki kankō tosho maikuro-...

by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)

Marius the Epicurean

by Walter Pater

As, in the triumph of Christianity, the old religion lingered latest in the country, and died out at last as but paganis...

Equality and Vulnerability in the Context of Italian Politic...

by Gianfrancesco Zanetti

Pharsalia

by Lucan

Of wars across Emathian plains, worse than civil wars, and of legality conferred on crime we sing, and of a mighty peopl...

Discourses on Livy

by Niccolò Machiavelli, Harvey C. Mansfield

Book One deals with 'such events due to public decrees' as the author judges to be worthy of comment, and with their con...

Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres

by Hugh Blair

One of the most distinguished privileges which Providence has conferred upon mankind, is the power of communicating thei...