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...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman.

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

The auditorium of the Hotel de Bourgogne in 1640.

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Henry Moore

by David Sylvester, Henry Moore

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...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

History

by Herodotus