The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

Two Treatises on Government

by John Locke, Ian Shapiro

1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...

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by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Bible

by Bible

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

Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

The Alhambra

by Washington Irving

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...

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby

by Charles Kingsley

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

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...