The House of the Dead

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forests of the desert regions of Siberia, one meets f...

A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.

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, and...

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...

Meghadūta

by Kālidāsa

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

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

Tax administration

by United States. General Accounting Office

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less.

Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...

La Peste

by Albert Camus

The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-at Oran.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, privet drive.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

I AM nitidum retegente diem noctisque fugante tempora Lucifero cadit eurus, et umida surgunt nubila: dant placidi cursum...

Financial Management

by United States. General Accounting Office

Financial audit

by United States. General Accounting Office

L'être et le néant

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Vores undersøgelser har ført os ind midt i væren.

Le suicide

by Émile Durkheim

THERE are two sorts of extra-social causes to which one may, a priori, attribute an influence on the suicide-rate; they ...