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...

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provide...

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

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...

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

1 The Psalms sung throughout the world.

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.

Metamorphoses

by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington

What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...

Colloquia

by Desiderius Erasmus

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

Économie internationale

by Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld

Hitler

by Alan Bullock

Adolf Hitler was born at half past six on the evening of 20 April 1889, in the Gasthof zum Pommer, an inn in the small t...

El Señor Presidente

by Miguel Ángel Asturias

"BOOM, bloom, alum-bright, Lucifer of alunite!" The sound of the church bells summoning people to prayer lingered on, li...

Christmas Books (Battle of Life / Chimes / Christmas Carol /...

by Charles Dickens

MARLEY was dead, to begin with.

Institutio Christianae religionis

by Jean Calvin

From those matters so far discussed, we clearly see how destitute and devoid of all good things man is, and how he lacks...

Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

by Max Stirner

Ya a los pocos anos de su publicacion se hablaba de El unico como de un libro "de mala nota".

The idea of a university

by John Henry Newman

IN ADDRESSING MYSELF, GENTLEMEN, to the consideration of a question which has excited so much interest, and elecited so ...