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...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

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...

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

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 ...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

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.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...

Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

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

Way to wealth

by Benjamin Franklin

Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;

Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate S...

Sanditon

by Jane Austen

A GENTLEMAN AND A LADY travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and E...

Os Lusíadas

by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho

As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...

The lady of the lake

by Sir Walter Scott

Νόμοι

by Πλάτων

Strangers, let me ask a question of you-Was a God or a man the author of your laws?