The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

1. The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

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...

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

The House of Seven Gables Readalong

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark,

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, tho' not of that country, my father being a foreigne...

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 hoo...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.