Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

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

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A warm, well-furnished room, reflecting more taste than expense.

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

L’étranger

by Albert Camus

Maman died today.

Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

Two courtiers exchange compliments, speaking in an elegant, formal prose.

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...

Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank

Aus: Die Tagebucher der Anne Frank.

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Žmonės, geižiantys įgyti valdovo palankumą, paprastai stengiasi jam įsiteikti tuo, ką turi brangiausia, arba tuo, ką, jų...

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

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...

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

The auditorium of the Hotel de Bourgogne in 1640.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain