Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...

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 ...

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...

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.

Bible

by Bible

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

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

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 ...

Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)

by Moses Maimonides

Colloquia

by Desiderius Erasmus

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

The Roman Breviary

by Catholic Church, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquess of Bute

Legenda aurea

by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton

The Lord's advent is celebrated for four weeks to signify that his coming is fourfold: he came to us in the flesh, he co...