The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

Of Human Bondage

by William Somerset Maugham

The day broke gray and dull.

The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

HAVE you heard of the great Forest of Burzee?

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

DEINDE CONSIDERANDUM EST de præsidentia angelorum super creaturam corporalem.

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

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...

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."...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

Bible

by Bible

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

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

Depuis Voltaire, une longue tradition critique voit en Pascal à la fois un grand auteur classique et un dangereux séduct...

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...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

Careers in Focus

by Ferguson Publishing Company

Saint Francis of Assisi

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways.

Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los p...

by Miguel de Unamuno

Frygt og Bæven

by Søren Kierkegaard

An old adage drawn from the external and visible world says: "Only the one who works gets the bread."

Autobiografía Malcolm X

by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

would move. I am not sure why he made this decision, for he was not a frightened Negro, as most then were, and many stil...

The Problem of Pain

by C. S. Lewis, James Simmons

Not many years ago when I was an atheist, if anyone had asked me, 'Why do you not believe in God?'