The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

OUR long months of preparation and planning for the greatest amphibious operation in history ended on D Day, Tune 6, 104...

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!

Second Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

The First Galactic Empire had endured for tens of thousands of years.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

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...

Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Laws, etc

by United States

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

The Silmarillion

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...

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...

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

Naturalis historia

by Pliny the Elder

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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

Hamlet

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...

History

by Herodotus

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...