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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

1800 2406 ed.
Paradise Lost
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...

1667 396 ed.
Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

1558 416 ed.
Book of common prayer
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,...

1537 545 ed.
Imitation of Christ
Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

1568 394 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

1479 491 ed.
La Divina Commedia
La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

1472 1339 ed.
Gorin no sho
Gorin no sho

by Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson

Martial arts are the warrior's way of life.

1963 97 ed.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways.

1923 547 ed.
Φαίδων
Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

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

1713 291 ed.
Sapiens
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.

2011 86 ed.
The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

IT WAS CLOSE to noon before Petronius came awake, feeling as drained and listless and detached as always.

1895 453 ed.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the g...

1927 109 ed.
The Art of Public Speaking
The Art of Public Speaking

by Stephen E. Lucas

Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker.

1983 80 ed.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.

1961 80 ed.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence

THE Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through a...

1915 358 ed.
Heretics
Heretics

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

NOTHING more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made ...

1905 551 ed.