Evangeline

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A world history of photography

by Naomi Rosenblum

A Child's History of England

by Charles Dickens

One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two was a glorious year for America.

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the salo...

Las venas abiertas de América Latina

by Eduardo Galeano

Alberto Giacometti

by Alberto Giacometti, Agnes De La Beaumell

Joan Miró

by Joan Miró, Stephan Von Wiese

Endurance

by Alfred Lansing, Elena Grau

The order to abandon ship was given at 5 p.m.

Say Cheese and Die!

by Robert Lawrence Stine

"How about a baseball game?"

Without sanctuary

by James Allen, Hilton Als

From the Mississippi Delta in the early twentieth century, Robert Johnson, a black bluesman, articulated a lonely and te...

How the other half lives

by Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks

1. LONG ago it was said that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives."

The Maine Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railro...

Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Folio Series Number 959...

by Michel Tournier

Ancient Egypt (DK Eyewitness)

by Hart, George, George Hart

Rodin

by Auguste Rodin, Catherine Lampert

Photography

by Liz Wells

This chapter introduces and discusses key writings on photography.

Aloha-Ha-Ha!

by Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus

Dear first-grade journal, I'VE GOT BIG NEWS!

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

by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)

About Looking

by John Berger

The 19th century, in western Europe and North America, saw the beginning of a process, today being completed by 20th cen...

Regarding the Pain of Others

by Susan Sontag