History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Along time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babi...

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every ...

Live and let die

by Ian Fleming

There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act th...

Il pendolo di Foucault

by Umberto Eco

That was when I saw the Pendulum.

Ἀνάβασις

by Xenophon

Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.

Extradition laws and treaties, United States

by United States

La Société du spectacle

by Guy Debord

Toda a vida das sociedades nas quais reinam as modernas condições de produção se apresenta como uma imensa acumulação de...

The talisman

by Stephen King, Peter Straub

ON SEPTEMBER 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of h...

La tulipe noire

by Alexandre Dumas

ON THE 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim, that one might believe every...

The Birds of America

by John James Audubon

The results of a period of world exploration were consolidated in the late 17th and early 18th centuries when descriptio...

Gedichte

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here my garden is growing, the flowers of Eros I tend here; They are the Muse's own choice, bedded out wisely they bloom...

Into the Wild

by Erin Hunter

It was very dark. Rusty could sense something was near.

Treaties, etc

by Rand McNally

[Relief of C. J. Baronett.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories

The Wishing Spell

by Chris Colfer

The Hudson Bay Company

by Robert Michael Ballantyne, Thomas Nelson and Sons

Reader, -I take for granted that you are tolerably well acquainted with the different modes of life and travelling pecul...

The Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper

The trapper, who had meditated no violence, dropped his rifle again, and laughing at the success of his experiment, with...