The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

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...

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Žmonės, geižiantys įgyti valdovo palankumą, paprastai stengiasi jam įsiteikti tuo, ką turi brangiausia, arba tuo, ką, jų...

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the cle...

Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

The Odyssey

by Όμηρος

Преступление и наказание

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

В начале июля, в чрезвычайно жаркое время, под вечер, один молодой человек вышел из своей каморки, которую нанимал от жи...

Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Medea

by Euripides

The Scene represents the front of MEDEA'S House in Corinth.

Il Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Dante and Beatrice are at the threshold of Heaven.

Доктор Живаго

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Dell'Arte della Guerra

by Niccolò Machiavelli

MANY ARE now of the opinion, my dear Lorenzo, that no two things are more discordant and incongruous than a civil and a ...

Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...