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...

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

1.1 Antony refuses to hear the messengers from Rome and declares that nothing matters but his love for Cleopatra.

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

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.

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Antonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

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...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

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 ...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...

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...

Bible

by Bible

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

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.

King John

by William Shakespeare

King John was first printed in the 1623 Folio, where it was placed at the head of the histories, and since that text is ...