The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells, Ellen Marriage

The problem which was already being mooted by such scientific men as Ramsay, Rutherford, and Soddy, in the very beginnin...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

When the Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day-a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage, and f...

The game of life and how to play it

by Florence Scovel Shinn

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

DEINDE CONSIDERANDUM EST de præsidentia angelorum super creaturam corporalem.

As a man thinketh

by James Allen

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

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

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

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...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.