Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A glance at the occupational statistics for any country in which several religions coexist is revealing.

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...

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...

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

La père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

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...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

The Book of the Dead

by E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer

The Recensions of the great body of religious compositions, which were drawn up for the use of dead kings, nobles, pries...

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

THE PLAY-for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding s...

Fit & well

by Thomas D. Fahey, Paul M. Insel

On Writing

by Stephen King

The Gold-Bug

by Edgar Allan Poe

MANY years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand.