Bible

by Bible

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

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Sein und Zeit

by Martin Heidegger

If it serves its purpose, this entire book will be an introduction to the question of Being in the thought of Martin Hei...

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Meghadūta

by Kālidāsa

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Gitanjali (song offerings)

by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.

Tao te Ching

by 老子

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

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Noli Me Tangere

by José Rizal

Don Santiago de los Santos was giving a dinner party one evening towards the end of October in the 1880s.

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...

Il Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Dante and Beatrice are at the threshold of Heaven.

The Book of the Dead

by E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer

The Recensions of the great body of religious compositions, which were drawn up for the use of dead kings, nobles, pries...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.