A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Metamorphoses

by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington

What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

HERE IS Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

Elements

by Euclid

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg...

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...

Bible

by Bible

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

Νόμοι

by Πλάτων

Strangers, let me ask a question of you-Was a God or a man the author of your laws?

The Ivy Tree

by Mary Stewart

I might have been alone in a painted landscape.

Andy Warhol

by Andy Warhol

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

by John Stuart Mill, Louis Peisse

1. IT is so much the established practice of writers on logic to commence their treatises by a few general observations ...