Found 19,521 results for "Living History"
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
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...
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant
IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.
Prince Caspian
by C. S. Lewis
ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book call...
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those wh...
Utopia
by Thomas More
THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...
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 foreign...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
Il signore e la signora Dursley, di Privet Drive numero 4, erano orgogliosi di poter affermare che erano perfettamente n...
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that...
Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...