Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...

The Valley of Fear

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Ich denke...« sagte ich."

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...

A Study in Scarlet

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 ...

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Fairy Tales and Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

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...

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning' letters.

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

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...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

Genji monogatari

by Murasaki Shikibu

IN the reign of a certain Emperor, whose name is unknown to us, there was, among the Niogo and Koyi of the Imperial Cour...