Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

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.

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.

Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

No fewer than four biographies of Trollope have appeared in recent years, by R. H. Super (1988), Richard Mullen (1990), ...

Il purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

To course on better waters the little boat of my wit, that leaves behind her so cruel a sea, now raises her sails, and I...

Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

The Prussian Commander, Major Graf von Farlsberg, was finishing the reading of his mail, comfortably seated in a large t...

L'Heptaméron

by Marguerite Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at...

by Julian of Norwich, Warrack, Grace Harriet, 1855-1932

This first chapter tells of the number of the revelations particularly.