On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of ...

History

by Herodotus

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...

Anthem

by Ayn Rand

IT IS A SIN TO WRITE THIS.

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...

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, bariptity, bariptity-Good. His dad had the pickup going."

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

The Two Towers

by J.R.R. Tolkien

ARAGORN sped on up the hill.

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

If I had a penny for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I'd have—hang on a moment—£4.67.

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...

Ἀνάβασις

by Xenophon

Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.

Guns, germs, and steel

by Jared M. Diamond

A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...

Sailing alone around the world

by Joshua Slocum

In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fun...

A Greek-English Lexicon

by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott

Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:

by Charles Darwin

After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the co...