Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming i...

Genji monogatari

by Murasaki Shikibu

Among the women in the palace of the Emperor was one named Kiritsubo (Paulownia Court), who though only an Imperial Conc...

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Yogananda Paramahansa

THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...

Lilith

by George MacDonald

I had just finished my studies at Oxford, and was taking a brief holiday from work before assuming definitely the manage...

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Tao te Ching

by 老子

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

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

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

Bible

by Bible

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

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...

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...

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

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

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Heretics

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

NOTHING more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made ...

Leonardo

by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster

TOWARD THE MIDDLE of the sixteenth centry, the prolific Gliorgio Vasari, a mediocre painter but a respectable architect ...

Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)

by Ayn Rand, Sophie Bastide-Foltz

"Who is John Gait?"

The Roman Breviary

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

An essay on man

by Alexander Pope

HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...