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...

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

Laws, etc

by Great Britain.

Bible

by Bible

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

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

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 foreign...

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

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...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...