Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

by Milan Kundera

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think t...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours

by Jules Verne

MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Those who wish to win favor with a prince customarily offer him those things which they hold most precious or which they...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

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...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

It is cold; and it is midnight.

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

Ficciones

by Jorge Luis Borges

Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.

Satyricon

by Petronius

[Encolpius is in full flow:] 'This, surely, is the same band of Furies goading our teachers of rhetoric when they cry: "...

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

by Milan Kundera

In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to hara...

Picasso

by William S. Lieberman

I promessi sposi

by Alessandro Manzoni

"ONE arm of Lake Como turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, which cut it up into a series of ...

Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune

by Gaston Leroux

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille.

Žert

by Milan Kundera

"SO HERE I WAS, home again after all those years."

Le Corbusier

by Le Corbusier

"Mit 17 Jahren hatte ich das Gluck, einen Bauherrn kennen zu lernen, der mir ohne Vorurteile sein Bauvorhaben anvertraut...