Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

A Mind That Found Itself

by Clifford Whittingham Beers

This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...

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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

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...

Poems by John Keats

by John Keats

I stood tiptoe upon a little hill,

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

John Barleycorn

by Jack London

IT all came to me one election day.

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.

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

MARRY the heroine of this fiction, was the daughter of Edward, who married Eliza, a gentle, fashionable girl, with a kin...

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...

The works of Washington Irving

by Washington Irving

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Hace más de un siglo y medio que se publicó por vez primera 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Sl...

Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.