Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

Principles of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill

THERE are very few scientific books whose permanent place in literature seems so well established as that of John Stuart...

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

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...

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

by Viktor E. Frankl

THIS BOOK DOES NOT claim to be an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of...

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...

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...