A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

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...

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Alexander Brown

IT BEGAN with Christopher Columbus, who gave the people the name Indios.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

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.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Antonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...