Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The Incompleteness of the Ethics.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

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 ...

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

The First Men in the Moon

by H. G. Wells

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

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

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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...

Carmilla

by Sheridan Le Fanu

Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he acc...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.

Two Treatises on Government

by John Locke, Ian Shapiro

1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...

Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.