Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an 'immense collection of commodi...

Bible

by Bible

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

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...

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...

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1626, the market-town of Meung, in which the author of the "Romance of the ro...

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: "Now I saw, th...

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

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

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Chiamatemi Ismaele.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the House of Capulet.

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME, shall not walk in darkness" (John 8:12), saith the Lord.

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Essay concerning human understanding

by John Locke

1. Man fitted to form articulated Sounds.

Elements

by Euclid

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

Tell me about a complicated man.

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Again you come to me, faltering shapes

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

SING, MUSE, OF ACHILLES'S WRATH, WHICH BROUGHT SORROW AND DEATH TO THE ACHAEAN CAMP.

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that ev...