Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of...

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

John Leslie Breck

by Katherine Bourguignon, Jeffrey R. Brown

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

Two courtiers exchange compliments, speaking in an elegant, formal prose.

Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

The pretty little Swiss town of Mavenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range, whose grim rugged peaks tower high above...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...