Naturalis historia

by Pliny the Elder

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Мы

by Евгений Иванович Замятин

I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Le petit prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

ALS ICH SECHS Jahre alt war, sah ich einmal in einem Buch uber den Urwald, das ,,Erlebte Geschichten" hei , ein prachtig...

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 foreig...

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

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.

Schachnovelle

by Stefan Zweig

Auf dem großen Passagierdampfer, der um Mitternacht von New York nach Buenos Aires abgehen sollte, herrschte die übliche...

Смерть Ивана Ильича

by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs

During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met ...

L’étranger

by Albert Camus

Maman died today.

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...