Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A GLANCE at the occupational statistics of any country of mixed religious composition brings to light with remarkable fr...

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

Gorin no sho

by Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson

Martial arts are the warrior's way of life.

Financial Management

by United States. General Accounting Office

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

Financial audit

by United States. General Accounting Office

How we think

by John Dewey

No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought.

Dom Casmurro

by Machado de Assis

One evening just lately, as I was coming back from town to Engenho Novo* on the Central line train, I met a young man fr...

The Boxcar Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

ONE WARM NIGHT four children stood in front of a bakery.

The Kreutzer sonata and other stories

by Лев Толстой

Travellers left and entered our car at every stopping of the train.

Livro do Desassossego

by Fernando Pessoa

Installed on the upper floors of certain respectable taverns in Lisbon can be found a small number of restaurants or eat...

The reluctant dragon

by Kenneth Grahame, Jim Weiss

LONG ago-might have been hundreds of years ago-in a cottage halfway between a little English village and the shoulder of...

Wizard and Glass

by Stephen King

The town of Candleton was a poisoned and irradiated ruin, but not dead; after all the centuries it still twitched with t...

Strangers On a Train

by Patricia Highsmith, Michael Nation

The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

by Judy Blume

I won Dribble at Jimmy Fargo's birthday party.

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

She's buried benaeth a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn.

Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

ANNE SHIRLEY was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar...