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Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
An autobiography
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grand...
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
Mémoires d'Hadrien
by Marguerite Yourcenar
My dear Mark, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey...
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...
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...
Burmese Days
by George Orwell
U PO KYIN, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda.
The World Almanac for Kids
by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel
One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...
Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
Ἀνάβασις
by Xenophon
Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.