Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin

The science of getting rich, or, financial success through c...

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or success...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

ALL children, except one, grow up.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Lun yu

by Confucius

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Antonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...

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 ...