Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

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...

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

Careers in Focus

by Ferguson Publishing Company

Financial audit

by United States. General Accounting Office

Bill

by Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.

The World Almanac for Kids

by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel

One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...

Extradition laws and treaties, United States

by United States

The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history

by Ibn Khaldūn, عبد الرحمن ابن خلدون Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldun

It should be known that history, in matter of fact, is informan about human social organization, which itself is identic...

Relato de un náufrago

by Gabriel García Márquez

The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft

by Hubert Howe Bancroft

When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...