Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, or the "Bard" as people fondly call him, permeates almost all aspects of our society.

The role of the Romanies

by Nicholas Saul

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...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

1. When shall we three meet againe?

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

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

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

The Poetical Works of John Dryden

by John Dryden, John Mitford

THIS illustrious Poet was son of Erasmus Dryden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire, third son of Sir Erasmus Dryden of Can...

A history of our own times, from the accession of Queen Vict...

by Justin McCarthy

Annals of horsemanship

by Henry William Bunbury

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, or the "Bard" as people fondly call him, permeates almost all aspects of our society.

Mark Twain's Library of Humor

by Mark Twain, W. L. Alden

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) was born at Hannibal, Mo., in 1835, and after serving an apprenticeship to the printing b...

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

Richard. Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster, Hast thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herefo...

A Dictionary of practical surgery

by Samuel Cooper, John Syng Dorsey

Essay concerning human understanding

by John Locke

Since it is the UNDERSTANDING that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and domin...

Twice-Told Tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There was once a time, when New-England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs, than those threatened ones ...

The Gift

by Lydia H. Sigourney, Emma C. Embury

Studies in medieval and Renaissance literature

by C. S. Lewis

There are more ways than one of reading old books.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

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 foreig...

The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq

by Washington Irving

I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners.

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...