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...

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

'Salem’s Lot

by Stephen King

Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.

Summa Theologica

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

DEINDE CONSIDERANDUM EST de præsidentia angelorum super creaturam corporalem.

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

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 ...

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure has been strikingly popular for more than thirty years, both on the stage and in the study, and ther...

Understanding paraplegia

by John James Walsh

Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at...

by Julian of Norwich, Warrack, Grace Harriet, 1855-1932

Here is a vision shown by the goodness of God to a devout woman, and her name is Julian, who is a recluse at Norwich and...

Idylls of the King

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Misal diario y vesperal

by Catholic Church