The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The Incompleteness of the Ethics.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...

La Poetica

by Aristotle

We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

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

History

by Herodotus

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

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

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

Kritik der reinen Vernunft

by Immanuel Kant

IN whatsoever mode, or by whatsoever means, our knowledge may relate to objects, it is at least quite clear, that the on...

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...

Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

IN MY JOURNEY through the wilderness of this world there came a time when I found myself caged up in a very dreary dunge...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...