Artist-biographies

by Moses Foster Sweetser

Max Ernst

by Max Ernst, Werner Spies

Flush

by Virginia Woolf, Eileen Atkins

IT IS universally admitted that the family from which the subject of this memoir claims descent is one of the greatest a...

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

Henry Moore

by David Sylvester, Henry Moore

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

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...

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

ON the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Phara...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...