Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

Girl in translation

by Jean Kwok

After Babel

by George Steiner

ACT II of Cymbeline closes with a monologue by Posthumus.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late evening when K. arrived.

Babel

by R. F. Kuang

By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton’s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the...

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Dante the Pilgrim wakes from a stupor to discover that he's lost in a dark forest and can't remember anything from the n...

The setting sun

by 太宰 治

Mother uttered a faint cry.

The Odyssey

by Όμηρος, Emily R. Wilson

Bible

by Bible

In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.

The Holy Qur'an

by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

1 In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Translations

by Brian Friel

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The way you can go isn't the real way.

Ferdydurke

by Witold Gombrowicz

Tuesday morning I awoke at that pale and lifeless hour when night is almost gone but dawn has not yet come into its own.

Sappho

by Sappho

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays

Physical chemistry

by Robert A. Alberty, Robert J. Sibley

Mythologies

by Roland Barthes

The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess.