The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

Then Ulfius was glad, and rode on more than a pace till that he came to King Uther Pendragon, and told him he had met wi...

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...

Lives

by Plutarch

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

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aric Cushing

Nur selten beherbergen Ahnenhallen den Sommer über ganz gewöhnliche Leute wie John und mich.

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME, shall not walk in darkness" (John 8:12), saith the Lord.

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Those who wish to win favor with a prince customarily offer him those things which they hold most precious or which they...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

Мастер и Маргарита

by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

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

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

SING, MUSE, OF ACHILLES'S WRATH, WHICH BROUGHT SORROW AND DEATH TO THE ACHAEAN CAMP.

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains.