The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Robert Boyd

by United States. Congress. House

La Poetica

by Aristotle

We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...

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...

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.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

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...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...

Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house

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...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

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...

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara n'était pas d'une beauté classique, mais les hommes ne s'en apercevaient guere quand, å l'exemple des ju...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...