Summa Theologica

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

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

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...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank

I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will ...

Der Proceß

by Franz Kafka

SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...

Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

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 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...

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 ...

Mutual Aid

by Peter Kropotkin, P. Kropotkin

THE conception of struggle for existence as a factor of evolution, introduced into science by Darwin and Wallace, has pe...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

Study Guide

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