The Norton Anthology of English Literature

by M. H. Abrams, M. Abrams

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

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.

Bible

by Bible

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

Lun yu

by Confucius

Hong lou meng

by Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin., (qing) Cao, xue qin

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 ...

Les confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig t...

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New Yo...

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

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.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665

by Daniel Defoe

IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...

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.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

Lives

by Plutarch

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