Comus

by John Milton

A View from the Bridge

by Arthur Miller

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Snowman wakes before dawn.

De architectura

by Vitruvius Pollio

Good Night Gorilla

by Peggy Rathmann, Ma. Francisca Mayobre

Good night, Gorilla.

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.

Nuclear waste

by United States. General Accounting Office

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

On the go from morn till night,

Alexander's Bridge

by Willa Cather

LATE one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with ...

Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

IT was on the evening of the 10th of March, 1793; ten o'clock was striking from Notre Dame, and each stroke sounding, em...

Trois contes

by Gustave Flaubert

FOR half a century the good ladies of Pont-l'Eveque envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

The Testaments

by Margaret Atwood

Rime

by Francesco Petrarca

You who can hear in scattered rhymes the sound of all that sighing which once fed my heart in my first youthful error,

Man and His Symbols

by Carl Gustav Jung

Man uses the spoken or written word to express the meaning of what he wants to convey.

Retrato en sepia

by Isabel Allende

I came into the world one Tuesday in the autumn of 1880, in San Francisco, in the home of my maternal grandparents.

Satirae

by Horace

D' ou vient, Mecene , que jamais I'homme, soit qu'un dessein raisonne lui ait fait choisir sa part, soit que le hasard l...

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...

Amores

by Ovid

I'd meant in solemn metre to rehearse

[To pay Francis W. Sykes compensation and mileage of Senator...

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections

Istorie Fiorentine

by Niccolò Machiavelli, Félix Fernández Murga

Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or coun...