The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

An autobiography

by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

READER: Just at present there is a Home Rule wave passing over India.

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

Autobiografía Malcolm X

by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank

Aus: Die Tagebucher der Anne Frank.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

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

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

Diary

by Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal go...

Saint Francis of Assisi

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways.

Long Walk to Freedom

by Nelson Mandela

APART FROM LIFE, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father be...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

"WHEN I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the mustly little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed...

Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...

Visage volé

by Latifa, Chekeba Hachemi

9 A.M., September 27, 1996. Someone knocks violently on our door.