"Oliver Twist" is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens and was first published as a serial 1837–39.Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June...
"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a play by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish...
"The Art of War" is a treatise by the Italian Renaissance political philosopher and historian Niccolò Machiavelli.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3...
Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which...
The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text.The Tao Te Ching is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism.Lao-tuz was the founder of...
"Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various...
"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest...
A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson.Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
Child brides sold as objects, with a rite of marriage or a simple exchange of money, to people of adult age, suffer real abuse, an act which aids paedophilia. The stories told in...
"The District Doctor" is a russian short story. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 – 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright.Translated...