Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

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.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

Depuis Voltaire, une longue tradition critique voit en Pascal à la fois un grand auteur classique et un dangereux séduct...

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

by Edgar Allan Poe

Me llamo Arthur Gordon Pym.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Le rouge et le noir

by Stendhal

The little town of Verrieres is one of the prettiest in Franche-Comte.

Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...