Found 208 results for "Simon Bacon"
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
by Viktor E. Frankl
THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of...
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant
IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...
Le roman du masque de fer
by Alexandre Dumas
SINCE ARAMIS' SINGULAR TRANSFORMATION INTO A CONfessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
by Jules Verne
MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
1.1 Antonio, a Venetian merchant, has invested all his wealth in trading expeditions.
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
FLAVIUS Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home.
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
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 Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hur...
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
DEPENDING ON WHO you listened to, it was either the best of times, or it was the worst of times.
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.