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...

Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Salomé

by Oscar Wilde

SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

Vincent van Gogh

by Vincent van Gogh, Colta Ives

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

La nausée

by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Witches

by Roald Dahl

I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Vol de nuit

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

a scene that would never change. This tiny village, he could gladly have made friends with it; the choice once made, a m...

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...

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

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 ...

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

Robert Langdon awoke slowly.

À rebours

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

THE Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a...

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 ...