Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

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...

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

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.

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...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Colloquia

by Desiderius Erasmus

Вишневый сад

by Антон Павлович Чехов

A room which is still called the nursery.

Μένων

by Πλάτων

Most of Plato's works start with an introductory scene, often of considerable length, giving details about the character...

Greece And Mesopotamia Dialogues In Literature

by Johannes Haubold

Γοργίας

by Πλάτων

CALLICLES. - Tu arrives, Socrate, comme il faut, diton, arriver a la guerre et a la bataille.

Conversations with God

by Neale Donald Walsch

In the spring of 1992-it was around Easter as I recall-an extraordinary phenomenon occurred in my life.