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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
A WELL-KNOWN SCIENTIST (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...
Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
by Πλάτων
WHY have you left the Lyceum, Socrates? and what are you doing in the Porch of the King Archon?
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
1.1 Antonio, a Venetian merchant, has invested all his wealth in trading expeditions.
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...
Tractatus logico-philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isidoro Reguera Pérez
Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-o...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.
Συμπόσιον
by Πλάτων
Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...
La Poetica
by Aristotle
We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?
Summa Theologica
by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930
THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...