Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

Государство и революция

by Vladimir Il’ich Lenin

What is now happening to Marx's teaching has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the teachings of revoluti...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Žmonės, geižiantys įgyti valdovo palankumą, paprastai stengiasi jam įsiteikti tuo, ką turi brangiausia, arba tuo, ką, jų...

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

by Pablo Neruda

Body of woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breath short-winded accents of new...

Satyricon

by Petronius

[Encolpius is in full flow:] 'This, surely, is the same band of Furies goading our teachers of rhetoric when they cry: "...

Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

Richard. Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster, Hast thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herefo...

The Art of Public Speaking

by Stephen E. Lucas

Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker.