Relief of W. C. Stewart

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims

W. C. Stewart

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Claims

The Last Battle

by C. S. Lewis

IN THE LAST DAYS OF NARNIA, FAR UP to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an...

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

Depuis Voltaire, une longue tradition critique voit en Pascal à la fois un grand auteur classique et un dangereux séduct...

Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

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...

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

Bible

by Bible

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

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...