Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton

The tropical rain fell in drenching sheets, hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic building, roaring down the metal...

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

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...

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...

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...

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

The Lost World

by Michael Crichton

The lecture ended, Malcolm hobbled across the open courtyard of the Institute, shortly after noon.

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

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, ...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...