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Voskresenīe
by Лев Толстой
THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...
The golden bough
by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster
I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?
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 Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
THE religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct.
Мастер и Маргарита
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
Essay concerning human understanding
by John Locke
1. Man fitted to form articulated Sounds.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
Satyricon
by Petronius
I. Num alio genere Furiarum declamatores inquietantur, qui clamant : "Haec uulnera pro libertate publica excepi; hunc oc...
The Confidence Man
by Herman Melville
AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, a...
Mysticism
by Evelyn Underhill
THE most highly developed branches of the human family have in common one peculiar characteristic.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
acteristic of these times, when Jewish individuals and the first small wealthy Jewish communities were more powerful tha...
Longitude
by Dava Sobel, William J. H. Andrewes
ONCE ON A WEDNESDAY excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved.
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
The Greeks did not believe that the gods created the universe.
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
"The history of the Renaissance ends in France, and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of...
L'Éducation sentimentale
by Gustave Flaubert
On the morning of 15 September 1840 the Ville de Montereau was lying alongside the quai Saint-Bernard* belching clouds o...