Emma

by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the b...

Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye

by Charles Perrault

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

by Edgar Allan Poe

Me llamo Arthur Gordon Pym.

The First Men in the Moon

by H. G. Wells

Bible

by Bible

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

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

WREN APRIL WITH his showers sweet with fruit

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

FLAVIUS: Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home.

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, like most of Shakespeare's comedies, is about love and marriage.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

AT A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA, WHOSE NAME I DO NOT wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen w...

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

SCENE I. On a ship at sea.

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

Looking back on everything that happened, I can hardly believe it wasn't all a dream!