Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

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...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

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 Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House,” even though it had been many years since the Ridd...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

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

Way to wealth

by Benjamin Franklin

Van Gogh

by Federico Zeri

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things ...

The Gods Themselves

by Isaac Asimov

"No good!" said Lamont, sharply.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson

"YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that ...

Γοργίας

by Πλάτων

Callicles: Socrates, it's smart to be late for a fight, but not for a feast.

Ethica

by Benedictus de Spinoza, Wolfgang Bartuschat

I. BY THAT which is SELF-CAUSED, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is onl...

Cuaderno

by Cool Libreta

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The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

It is sobering to realize that I have lived nearly half my life with The Selfish Gene—for better, for worse.