The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

I am fourteen years old.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

Socrates: I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, Ariston's son.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Lun yu

by Confucius

Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

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 ...

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!

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...

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

IN A DISTANT AND SECONDHAND SET OF DIMENSIONS, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling starmists wav...

Tintenherz

by Cornelia Funke

Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain.

Νόμοι

by Πλάτων

Strangers, let me ask a question of you-Was a God or a man the author of your laws?

Dei delitte e delle pene

by Cesare Beccaria

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is known almost exclusively as the author of On Crimes and Punishments, a short book on crim...

Coloring Book

by animailloverit cor

Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori

by Giorgio Vasari, Peter Murray

HAVING discussed drawing and painting in the life of Cimabue, and architecture in that of Arnolfo di Lapo, in this life ...

Ungeduld des Herzens

by Stefan Zweig

Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:

by Charles Darwin

After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the co...

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2)

by Robert Jordan