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Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye
by Charles Perrault
ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...
Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
Euthyphro: What are you doing at the courthouse, Socrates?
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...
The golden bough
by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster
I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
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...
The Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.
