The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isidoro Reguera Pérez

Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-o...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

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...

Anatomy

by Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter

THE entire skeleton in the adult consists of 200 distinct bones.

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Essays

by Francis Bacon

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

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665

by Daniel Defoe

IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...