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...

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Nous sommes à la ferme, à la tombée de la nuit, alors que M.Jones vient de rentrer du pub. Il est ce soir bien trop émé...

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

The Quest for Corvo

by Alphonse James Albert Symons, Baron (Subject) CORVO

MY QUEST FOR Corvo was started by accident one summer afternoon in 1925, in the company of Christopher Millard.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...

His Last Bow [8 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

Two Treatises on Government

by John Locke, Ian Shapiro

1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...

Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is an ancient Mariner,

The Warden

by Anthony Trollope

THE Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of - ; let us cal...

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

Saturninus. Noble Patricians, Patrons of my right,

Manon Lescaut

by Abbé Prévost

Just about six months before my departure for Spain, I first met the Chevalier des Grieux.

Salammbô

by Gustave Flaubert

THESE clamourings of the populace did not alarm Hamilcar's daughter.

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

No fewer than four biographies of Trollope have appeared in recent years, by R. H. Super (1988), Richard Mullen (1990), ...