Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

Diary

by Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The Incompleteness of the Ethics.

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

Vuestro tan respetable hermano, el Sr. Sidney Godolphin, gustaba mientras vivió de tomar en consideración mis escritos, ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

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 ...

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...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,