Self-knowledge

by John Mason

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

Eleven of Shakespeare's works are customarily classified as tragedies; and, of these, Antony and Cleopatra is one of the...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

All morning she had sat in the window seat of her room.

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

LEONATO: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...

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...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...

Anatomy

by Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter

THE entire skeleton in the adult consists of 200 distinct bones.

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

The above-described events took place in the winter.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

WHEN APRIL with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with li...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

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...

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

Forecasting outbreaks of the Douglas-fir tussock moth from l...

by R.R. Mason