Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

We are in Paris in 1640, the era of Dumas's Three Musketeers.

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.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

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...

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Hace más de un siglo y medio que se publicó por vez primera 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sl...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

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...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

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...

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...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

Elements

by Euclid

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Mythology

by Edith Hamilton

THE GREEKS did not believe that the gods created the universe.

The Gunslinger

by Stephen King

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.