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...

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

A melody is heard, played upon a flute.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

The Odyssey

by Όμηρος

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

Faerie queene

by Edmund Spenser

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

Доктор Живаго

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

History

by Herodotus

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

Os Lusíadas

by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho

As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...

Poema de mio Cid

by Anonymous