Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...

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...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

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 ...

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie

Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.

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...

Hallowe'en Party

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Ariadne Oliver had gone with the friend with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for...

At Bertram's Hotel

by Agatha Christie

In the heart of the West End, there are many quiet pockets, unknown to almost all but taxi drivers who traverse them wit...

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming.

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

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...