Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with li...

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

by Jules Verne

THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Again you come to me, faltering shapes

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The citizen is whoever has a right to take part in deliberative and judicial office in a city.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

SING, MUSE, OF ACHILLES'S WRATH, WHICH BROUGHT SORROW AND DEATH TO THE ACHAEAN CAMP.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, like most of Shakespeare's comedies, is about love and marriage.

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you ...