War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

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...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

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.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Cato

by Joseph Addison, Christine Dunn Henderson

THE dawn is over-caft, the morning low'rs,

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.

Richard III

by William Shakespeare

1.1 Richard, alone onstage, reveals his intention to play the villain.

Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,

Calculus

by Howard Anton, Howard A. Anton

One of the important themes in calculus is the analysis of relationships between physical or mathematical quantities.

Skeleton crew

by Stephen King

This is what happened.

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically m...

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure is one of the best of Shakespeare's plays, though it has not always received the appreciation it des...

Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.

The rules of attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis, Brent Ellis