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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

1900 430 ed.
The Art of War
The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

1900 1542 ed.
Der Antichrist
Der Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche

LET us look each other in the face.

1895 384 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
Het Achterhuis
Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank

Aus: Die Tagebucher der Anne Frank.

1944 293 ed.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

1933 119 ed.
Diary
Diary

by Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...

1825 166 ed.
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...

1932 120 ed.
Good wives
Good wives

by Louisa May Alcott

IN ORDER THAT we may start fresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip ...

1870 105 ed.
Bambi
Bambi

by Felix Salten

He came into the world in the middle of the thicket, in one of those little, hidden forest glades which seem to be entir...

1900 111 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

1865 3546 ed.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

1877 107 ed.
Poems by John Keats
Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

1800 200 ed.
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer, Detective

by Mark Twain

Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaw...

1897 276 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

1854 1139 ed.
Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur
Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur

by Maurice Leblanc

IT was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.

1907 214 ed.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mount...

1929 181 ed.