The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

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by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

LEONATO: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords, with Musicians playing.

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, like most of Shakespeare's comedies, is about love and marriage.

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Made Easy is intended for readers approaching the plays for the first time, who find the language of Elizabe...

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

On a ship at sea.

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...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

Barnardo. Who's there?

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

WELL, PRINCE, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family.

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

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...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

All morning she had sat in the window seat of her room.