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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...
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...
Notre Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
SUN TZU SAID: The military is a great matter of the state.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
Socrates: I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, Ariston's son.
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides
by Moses Maimonides
MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Il nome della rosa
by Umberto Eco
ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en ...
Genji monogatari
by Murasaki Shikibu
Among the women in the palace of the Emperor was one named Kiritsubo (Paulownia Court), who though only an Imperial Conc...
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...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
Halfway through the story of my life I came to in a gloomy wood, because I'd wandered off the path, away from the light.
Medea
by Euripides
For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.