Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with i...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

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...

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

Dell'Arte della Guerra

by Niccolò Machiavelli

MANY ARE now of the opinion, my dear Lorenzo, that no two things are more discordant and incongruous than a civil and a ...

John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

The science of getting rich, or, financial success through c...

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or success...

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

Good Omens

by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in dedicating this book to the memory of G. K. CHESTERTON.

Moriæ Encomium

by Desiderius Erasmus

HOW SLIGHTLY SOEVER I am esteemed in the common vogue of the world (for I well know how disingenuously Folly is decried,...

Art Through the Ages

by Helen Gardner

The Roman Breviary

by Catholic Church, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquess of Bute

Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.

Praise

by Sara Cate

Room

by Emma Donoghue

الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر

by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī

LEARN, O Vizir (God's blessing be upon you), that there are different sorts of men and women, that amongst these are tho...