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...

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nur selten beherbergen Ahnenhallen den Sommer über ganz gewöhnliche Leute wie John und mich.

NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research project

by Thomas E. Pinelli

Tik-Tok of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"I won't!" cried Ann; I won't sweep the floor.

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.

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

Ce n’était pas la première fois qu’une dispute éclatait au petit déjeuner dans la maison du 4, Privet Drive. Mr Vernon D...

Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur

by Maurice Leblanc

L’étrange voyage ! Il avait si bien commencé cependant ! Pour ma part, je n’en fis jamais qui s’annonçât sous de plus he...

La père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.

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...

Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Als ich sechs Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch über den Urwald, das „Erlebte geschichten hieß“, ein prächtige...

The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.