Found 524 results for "1876-1943"
A Mind That Found Itself
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.
Il Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
THE GLORY of the All-Mover penetrates through the universe and reglows in one part more, and in another less.
Идиот
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
Бѣсы
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...
Aeneis
by Publius Vergilius Maro
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Antonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
Братья Карамазовы
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être da...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...