Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Ordeal by Innocence

by Agatha Christie

It was dusk when he came to the Ferry.

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ALS ICH SECHS Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch uber den Urwald, das ,,Erlebte Geschichten" hei , ein prachtig...

Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

The Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

Le palais vacillait encore de temps à autre en réponse aux grondantes répliques sismiques de la terre, gémissait comme s...

Biology

by Neil Alexander Campbell

The flower featured on the cover of this book and in Figure 1.1 is from a magnolia, a tree of ancient lineage that is na...

Bushidō

by Inazo Nitobe, Stefano Daniel

Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up s...

De architectura

by Vitruvius Pollio

Odes

by Horace

Mecene, issu d'aieux royaux, o toi mon appui, toi, ma douce gloire, il y a des hommes dont c'est le plaisir d'avoir, a l...

Manon Lescaut

by Abbé Prévost

Just about six months before my departure for Spain, I first met the Chevalier des Grieux.

Ajniḥah al-mutakassirah

by Kahlil Gibran, Kahil Gibran

MY NEIGHBORS, you remember the dawn of youth with pleasure and regret its passing; but I remember it like a prisoner who...

Georgica

by Publius Vergilius Maro

What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star

Last Man Standing

by David Baldacci

Web London held a semiautomatic SR75 rifle custom built for him by a legendary gunsmith.

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferr...