Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

Le pre­mier lun­di du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où na­quit l’au­teur du Ro­man de la Rose, sem­blait être da...

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this a...

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur

by Maurice Leblanc

L’étrange voyage ! Il avait si bien commencé cependant ! Pour ma part, je n’en fis jamais qui s’annonçât sous de plus he...

Bible

by Bible

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

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

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...

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

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...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

Psychopathia sexualis

by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Krafft/

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...