A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

Max Ernst

by Max Ernst, Werner Spies

Naturalis historia

by Pliny the Elder

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Lust for Life

by Irving Stone

VICE-ADMIRAL JOHANNES VAN GOGH, highest ranking officer in the Dutch Navy, stood on the stoep of his roomy, rent-free re...

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

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

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

It was a pleasure to burn.

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

by Michael Rosen

We're going on a bear hunt.

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

THERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

Metamorphoses

by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington

What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...