Found 921 results for "Civilization, Ancient, in literature"
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
The golden bough
by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster
I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Братья Карамазовы
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.
Villette, a novel
by Charlotte Brontë
My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...
