The mis-education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson, George G.M. James

THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mi...

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

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 ...

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

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...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch über den Urwald, das „Erlebte geschichten hieß“, ein prächtige...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

The Odyssey

by Όμηρος

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 ...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour