The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...

Lun yu

by Confucius

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch über den Urwald, das „Erlebte geschichten hieß“, ein prächtige...

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

Смерть Ивана Ильича

by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs

In the large building housing the Law Courts, during a recess in the Melvinsky proceedings, members of the court and the...

The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Érase un viejo que solia ir de pesca solo en su bote en el Gulf Stream, y desde hace ya ochenta y cuatro dias no pescaba...

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that ev...