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Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

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Jefferson Davis


The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

The Grey Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other re…

Las Fábulas de Esopo, Vol. 6

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Aesop


Las clásicas Fábulas de Esopo han sido traducidas a todos idiomas por cientos de años. Las fábulas, en forma de …

The Time Machine (Version 4)

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H. G. Wells


The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two featu…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

The Moorland Cottage

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to h…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Middlemarch

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George Eliot


The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel

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Thornton W. Burgess


Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself in trouble again and is forced to abandon his old home. As the search for a new home begins, Chatte…

The Marvelous Land of Oz (version 2) (Dramatic Reading)

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L. Frank Baum


The Marvelous Land of Oz Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the…

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

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Maurice Leblanc


A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin wh…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. III

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Lady Susan (version 2)

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Jane Austen


Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Bible (KJV) NT 06: Romans

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King James Version


The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, often shortened to Romans, is the sixth book in the New Testament. Biblical scholars agree that it was co…

Alexander Hamilton

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Charles A. Conant


Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American …

La Locandiera

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Carlo Goldoni


La locandiera è una commedia scritta da Carlo Goldoni nel 1751.La storia si incentra sulle vicende di Mirandolina, un'attraente e ast…

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2

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John Calvin


Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

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