Arts/Design
John Ruskin,
A selection from The Poetry of Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
A selection from the essay, Studies and Executed Buildings Arts/Literature
Aesop,
Aesop's Fables
Conrad Aiken,
Selected Poems
Anna Akhmatova,
Selected Poems
Louisa May Alcott,
A selection from the novel Little Women
Hans Christian Andersen,
The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen,
The Red Shoes
Sherwood Anderson,
Sophistication
Temple Bailey,
The Eternal Feminine
Honoré de Balzac,
Innocence
Djuna Barnes,
A Book of Repulsive Women
Charles Baudelaire,
A selection from Flowers of Evil
L. Frank Baum
A story from American Fairy Tales The Wonderful Pump
Ambrose Bierce,
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The short story A Painful Memory from Childhood
William Blake
A selection from Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience
Giovanni Boccaccio,
A Tale from The Decameron
Anne Bradstreet,
Selected Poems
Charlotte Brontë,
Biographical Notice of Ellis And Acton Bell
Emily Brontë,
Selected Poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A selection from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Thomas Bulfinch,
Cupid and Psyche
Francis Hodgson Burnett,
A selection from The Secret Garden
Edgar Rice Burroughs,
A selection from Tarzan of the Apes
Lord Byron,
A selection from Don Juan
Dorothy Canfield,
The Poet and Scullery Maid
Lewis Carroll,
The Hunting of the Snark
Miguel de Cervantes,
A selection from Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer,
The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Anton Chekhov,
The Bet
Kate Chopin,
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Agatha Christie,
A selection from The Mysterious Affair at Styles
John Clare,
Selected Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Joseph Conrad,
A selection from Heart of Darkness
James Fenimore Cooper,
A selection from Last of the Mohicans
Susan Fenimore Cooper,
A selection from Rural Hours
Stephen Crane,
A selection from The Red Badge of Courage
Hart Crane,
Selected Poems
Dante Alighieri,
A selection from The Divine Comedy
Daniel Defoe
A selection from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens,
The Battle of Life
Emily Dickinson,
A selection from Letters of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson,
Selected Poems
John Dos Passos,
A selection from Three Soldiers
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
A selection from Notes from the Underground
Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Alexandre Dumas,
A selection from The Count of Monte Cristo
Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Selected Poems
George Eliot,
A selection from Middlemarch
T. S. Eliot,
The Wasteland
Edna Ferber,
The Homely Heroine
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
A selection from The Beautiful and Damned
Gustave Flaubert,
A selection from Madame Bovary
Mary Wilkins Freeman,
The Christmas Sing in Our Village
Robert Frost,
The Death of the Hired Man
Jean Giono,
The Man Who Planted Trees
Ellen Glasgow,
A Point in Morals
Susan Glaspell,
At Twilight
Johann Wolfgang Goethe,
A selection from Autobiography
Maxim Gorky,
Her Lover
Robert Graves,
A selection from Fairies and Fusiliers
Grimm Brothers,
The Golden Goose
Grimm Brothers,
Rapunzel
Grimm Brothers,
Tom Thumb
Grimm Brothers,
Rumpelstiltskin
Grimm Brothers,
Hansel and Gretel
Grimm Brothers,
The Valiant Little Tailor
H. D.,
A selection of poems from Sea Garden
Knut Hamsun,
A selection from Growth of the Soil
Thomas Hardy,
A selection from The Return of The Native
Bret Harte,
Outcasts of Poker Flat
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Vision of the Fountain
Lafcadio Hearn,
A Story of Divination
O. Henry,
The Last Leaf
Homer,
A selection from The Odyssey
Aldous Huxley,
A selection from Crome Yellow
W. W. Jacobs,
The Monkey’s Paw
Henry James,
A selection from The Turn of the Screw
Henry James,
A selection from The Art of the Novel
Robinson Jeffers,
Selected Poems
Sarah Orne Jewett,
A selection from The Country of the Pointed Firs
James Joyce,
Eveline
Franz Kafka,
A Hunger Artist
John Keats,
Selected Poems
Omar Khayyam,
The Rubaiyat
Rudyard Kipling,
My Own True Ghost Story
Heinrich von Kleist,
The Beggar Woman of Locarno
Selma Lagerlöf,
His Mother's Portrait
Emma Lazarus,
Selected Sonnets
Sinclair Lewis,
A selection from Babbit
Li Qingzhao,
Selected Poems
Jack London,
A selection from The Sea Wolf
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
A selection from Evangeline
H. P. Lovecraft,
The Music of Erich Zann
Amy Lowell,
Selected Poems
Lu Xun,
My Old Home
Thomas Mann,
Loulou
Katherine Mansfield,
Miss Brill
Guy de Maupassant,
The Piece of String
Herman Melville,
Charle's Isle and the Dog-King
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Renascence and Other Poems
Lucy Maud Montgomery,
A selection from Anne of Green Gables
Marianne Moore,
Selected Poems
Marguerite de Navarre,
A Tale from The Heptameron
Anaïs Nin,
Preface to the book, Little Birds
Dorothy Parker,
Selected Poems
Luigi Pirandello,
War
Christine de Pizan
A selection from The Book Of The Duke Of True Lovers
Edgar Allan Poe,
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe,
The essay The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe,
The essay Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
Katherine Anne Porter,
The Martyr
Beatrix Potter
A selection from The Tale of Peter Rabbit
and
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Marcel Proust,
A selection from Remembrance of Things Past
Alexandr Pushkin,
The Shot
Frederic Remington,
A selection from the book Crooked Trails
Ranier Maria Rilke,
A selection from Letters to a Young Poet
Arthur Rimbaud,
The Drunken Boat and Other Poems
Benjamin Rosenblatt,
Zelig
Christina Rossetti,
The poem Goblin Market
Rumi,
Selected Poems
Vita Sackville-West,
Selected Poems
Saki (H. H. Munro),
The Open Window
Saki (H. H. Munro),
The Story-Teller
George Sand
A selection from The Letters of George Sand to Gustave Flaubert
Carl Sandburg,
A selection from Chicago Poems
Sappho,
Selected Poems
Olive Schreiner,
The Woman's Rose
William Shakespeare,
A Lover's Complaint
Mary Shelley,
A selection from The Last Man
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
A selection from A Defence of Poetry
Upton Sinclair,
A selection from The Jungle
Gertrude Stein,
A selection from Narrative
Wallace Stevens,
Selected Poems
Robert Louis Stevenson,
The Manse
Frank R. Stockton,
The short story The Lady or the Tiger?
Bram Stoker,
A selection from the novel Dracula
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
A selection from Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jonathan Swift,
A selection from Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift,
A selection from A Tale of a Tub
Allen Tate,
Selected Poems
Leo Tolstoy,
Youth
Ivan Turgenev,
The District Doctor
Mark Twain,
A selection from the essay The Turning Point of My Life
Mark Twain,
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Sigrid Undset,
A selection from Jenny
Paul Valéry,
A selection from The Course in Poetics
Jules Verne,
A selection from Journey to the Center of the Earth
Virgil,
A selection from Georgics
Voltaire,
A selection from Zadig: An Oriental History
Rebecca West,
A selection from the novel The Return of the Soldier
Edith Wharton,
Roman Fever
Phillis Wheatley,
Selected Poems
Walt Whitman,
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed
Walt Whitman,
A selection from Specimen Days
Oscar Wilde,
Essays on Aesthetics
William Carlos Williams,
Selected Poems
Virginia Woolf,
A selection from A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf,
A Haunted House
William Wordsworth,
A selection from The Prelude
Elinor Wylie,
Selected Poems
William Butler Yeats,
Two Tales from Celtic Twilight Arts/Performing Arts
Ludwig van Beethoven,
A selection from Beethoven's Letters
Sarah Bernhardt
A selection from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
Enrico Caruso,
A selection from The Art of Singing
Frédéric Chopin
Selected Letters of Frédéric Chopin
Woody Guthrie,
Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax
Henrik Ibsen,
A selection from The Doll's House
Charles Ives,
A selection from Essays Before a Sonata
Franz Liszt,
A selection from The Life of Chopin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A selection from The Letters Of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eugene O’Neill,
A selection from The Hairy Ape
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
A selection from the book, Principles of Orchestration
Konstantin Stanislavski,
A selection from My Life in Art
August Strindberg,
The Play, The Stronger
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A selection from Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
Richard Wagner,
A selection from On Conducting Arts/Visual Arts
Walter Benjamin
A selection from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy,
The Interpretation of Symbols
Salvador Dalí
A selection from The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
Paul Gauguin,
A selection from Noa-Noa
Vincent van Gogh,
A selection from van Gogh's Letters
Wassily Kandinsky,
A selection from Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Leonardo da Vinci
A selection from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo,
Selected Sonnets on Art & the Artist
Pablo Picasso,
A selection from Picasso Speaks
Business/Careers
Dale Carnegie,
The Art of Public Speaking Business/Investing
Andrew Carnegie
A selection from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Charles Henry Dow
A selection from Editorials in the Wall Street Journal
Benjamin Franklin
Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One; and Rules Proper to be Observed in Trade
William Stanley Jevons,
A selection from The Coal Question
John Maynard Keynes
A selection from The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Charles Mackay
A selection from the book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Thomas Malthus
A selection from An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society
Adam Smith,
A selection from The Wealth of Nations
Thorsten Veblen,
A selection from The Theory of Business Enterprise
Max Weber
A selection from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Games & Hobbies/Aviation
Wright Brothers,
A selection from The Wright Brothers' Airplane
Religion & Spirituality/Buddhism
D. T. Suzuki,
A selection from Manual of Zen Buddhism Religion & Spirituality/Christianity
Saint Augustine,
A selection from Confessions
Soren Kierkegaard,
A selection from The Expectation of Faith
Evelyn Underhill
A selection from Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness Religion & Spirituality/Hinduism
Rabindranath Tagore
A selection from Sadhana: The Realisation of Life
Paramahansa Yogananda,
A selection from Autobiography of a Yogi Religion & Spirituality/Islam
al - Ghazali,
A selection from Confessions or Deliverance from Error
Science & Medicine/Literature
Edwin Abbott Abbott
The novella Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions Science & Medicine/Medicine
Louisa May Alcott,
A selection from Hospital Sketches
Clara Barton,
A selection from The History of The Red Cross
Hippocrates,
The Oath and Law of Hippocrates
Florence Nightingale,
A selection from Notes on Nursing
Linda Richards
A selection from Reminescences of America's First Trained Nurse Science & Medicine/Natural Sciences
Charles Babbage
A selection from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Francis Bacon,
A selection from Novum Organum
Liberty Hyde Bailey,
A selection from The Holy Earth
Niels Bohr
A selection from On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules
Nicolaus Copernicus
Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
Marie Curie,
The Discovery of Radium
Charles Darwin,
A selection from On the Origin of Species
Arthur Stanley Eddington
The Introduction to The Nature of the Physical World
Albert Einstein,
A selection from Relativity
Albert Einstein,
A selection from Relativity
Galileo Galilei
A selection from Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences
Edwin P. Hubble,
A selection from the essay The Exploration of Space
Alexander von Humboldt
A selection from Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe
Christiaan Huygens,
A selection from the book Treatise on Light
Alfred J. Lotka,
Contribution to the Energetics of Evolution
Ada Lovelace
A selection from Notes by the Translator to L.F. Menabrea's
Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq
Charles Lyell
A selection from The Student's Elements Of Geology
George Perkins Marsh
A selection from The Earth as Modified by Human Action
James Clerk Maxwell
A selection from On Faraday's Lines of Force
Isaac Newton
A selection from The Principia, or The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Max Planck
A selection from the Nobel Lecture The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory
Erwin Schrödinger
A selection from The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson,
A selection from On Growth and Form
Alan Turing,
A selection from Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Alfred Russel Wallace,
A selection from The Malay Archipeligo Science & Medicine/Social Sciences
Franz Boas,
A selection from The Mind of Primitive Man
George Catlin
A selection from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians
Émile Durkheim
A selection from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
James Frazer,
A selection from The Golden Bough
Sigmund Freud,
Dreams Have a Meaning
Sigmund Freud
A selection from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Lady Augusta Gregory
A selection from the book Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
Zora Neale Hurston,
A selection from Mules & Men
Carl Jung
A selection from the essay General Description of the Types
Alfred L. Kroeber
A selection from Handbook of the Indians of California
Kurt Lewin,
A selection from A Dynamic Theory of Personality
Bronislaw Malinowski
A selection from Baloma: The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands
Abraham Maslow,
A selection from A Theory of Human Motivation
George Herbert Mead
A selection from the essay, The Objective Reality of Perspectives
Jean Piaget,
A selection from The Language and Thought of the Child
Carl Rogers
A selection from Some Observations on the Organization of Personality
Edward Sapir
A selection from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
Ferdinand de Saussure,
A selection from The Nature of Language
Georg Simmel,
A selection from How Is Society Possible?
Stith Thompson,
A selection from Tales of the North American Indians
Lev Vygotsky,
A selection from Thought and Language
Society & Culture/
Collection AAA
A collection of samples from Today's Books on Education Society & Culture/History
John Adams,
Selected Letters of John Adams to Abigail Adams
Samuel Adams,
The essay On The Boston Massacre
Jane Addams,
A selection from Twenty Years at Hull House
Susan B. Anthony,
A selection from The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Mary Antin,
A selection from the book, The Promised Land
Marcus Aurelius,
A selection from The Meditations
Buffalo Bill (W.F. Cody)
A selection from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
Elizabeth Blackwell
A selection from Pioneering Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Julius Caesar,
A selection from The Gallic Wars
Giacomo Casanova
A selection from the autobiography, The Story of My Life
Willa Cather,
A Personal Sketch of the Prairie School House
Winston Churchill
A selection from The River War:
An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
Christopher Columbus
A selection from the Journal of Christopher Columbus
Rebecca Harding Davis,
A selection from The Civil War
Dorothea Dix,
The Memorial To The Massachusetts Legislature
Frederick Douglass,
A selection from My Bondage and My Freedom
W. E. B. Du Bois,
A selection from The Souls of Black Folk
Mohandas Gandhi,
A selection from My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas Gandhi,
A selection from My Experiments with Truth
Emma Goldman,
A selection from Living My Life
Ulysses S. Grant
A selection from The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Alexander Hamilton,
A selection from Federalist Paper #1
Julia Ward Howe
A selection from The Other Side of the Woman Question:
A Response to Francis Parkman
Thomas Jefferson,
A selection from Memoirs of Thomas Jefferson
Mother Jones,
A selection from The Autobiography Of Mother Jones
Helen Keller,
A selection from The Story of My Life
Abraham Lincoln
A selection from his Speech at the Cooper Institute, New York February 27, 1860
Thomas Macaulay,
A selection from History of England
James Madison,
A selection from the Federalist Paper Number 38
Alfred Thayer Mahan
A selection from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Murasaki Shikibu,
A selection from The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu
Thomas Paine,
A selection from The Crisis
Plutarch,
A selection from The Life of Alexander
Jacob Riis,
A selection from The Battle with the Slum
Eleanor Roosevelt
A selection from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do
Margaret Sanger,
A selection from Woman And The New Race
Lady Sarashina,
A selection from The Diary Of Lady Sarashina
George Bernard Shaw
A selection from the preface of The Heartbreak House
William Tecumseh Sherman
A selection from Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman
Sei Shonagon,
A selection from The Pillow Book
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A selection from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
"The Adventure of the Christmas Tree" from Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Cornelius Tacitus,
A selection from The Annals
Ida Tarbel,
A selection from The History of the Standard Oil Company
Alexis de Tocqueville,
A selection from Democracy in America
Sojourner Truth
A selection from The Autobiography of Sojourner Truth
Frederick Jackson Turner
A selection from The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Lillian D. Wald,
A selection from The House on Henry Street
Booker T. Washington,
A selection from Up from Slavery
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
A selection from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Edith Wharton,
A selection from Fighting France
Zitkala-Sa,
A selection from Impressions of an Indian Childhood Society & Culture/Literature
Collection AAA,
A collection of Short Stories (authors A-F)
Collection AAA,
A collection of Short Stories (authors G-K)
Collection AAA,
A collection of Short Stories (authors L-P)
Collection AAA,
A collection of Short Stories (authors R-Z)
Herman Hesse,
A selection from the novel Siddartha
Victor Hugo,
Love in Prison Society & Culture/Personal Journals
Abelard and Heloise
A selection from The Letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise
Abigail Adams
A selection from The Letters of Abigail Adams to John Adams
Jane Austen,
A Letter to Her Niece Society & Culture/Philosophy
Aristotle,
A selection from Metaphysics
Averroes
A selection from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
Henri-Louis Bergson,
A selection from Creative Evolution
Cicero,
A selection from The Orator
Carl von Clausewitz,
A selection from On War
Confucius,
A selection from The Analects
René Descartes,
A selection from Discourse on Method
John Dewey,
A selection from Democracy And Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
A selection from Experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
A selection from Nature
G. W. F. Hegel
A selection from Introduction to The Philosophy of Art
Thomas Hobbes,
A selection from The Leviathan
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
A selection from The Path of the Law
David Hume
A selection from An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Edmund Husserl,
A selection from Ideas
William James,
What Makes a Life Significant?
William James,
A selection from The Varieties of Religious Experience
Immanuel Kant,
A selection from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Yoshida Kenko,
Essays of Yoshida Kenko
Lao Tzu,
A selection from the Tao Te Ching
Gottfried Leibniz
A selection from On the Ultimate Origination of Things
John Locke,
A selection from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Niccolo Machiavelli,
A selection from The Prince
Moses Maimonides,
A selection from The Guide for the Perplexed
John Stuart Mill,
A selection from Autobiography
Michel de Montaigne,
The essay Of Fear
Thomas More,
A selection from Utopia
Friedrich Nietzsche,
A selection from Beyond Good and Evil
Blaise Pascal,
A selection from Pensees
Charles Sanders Peirce,
A selection from How to Make our Ideas Clear
Gifford Pinchot,
A selection from The Fight for Conservation
Plato,
A selection from The Republic
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A selection from The Confessions of Jean-jacques Rousseau
Josiah Royce,
A selection from the book The World and the Individual
Bertrand Russell,
A selection from Appearance and Reality
Friedrich Schiller
A selection from On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Arthur Schopenhauer,
Selections from Thinking for Oneself
Benedict de Spinoza,
A selection from A Theologico-Political Treatise
Henry David Thoreau,
A selection from Walden
Sun Tzu,
The Art of War
Miguel de Unamuno,
A selection from The Tragic Sense of Life
H. G. Wells,
A selection from The Human Adventure
Alfred North Whitehead,
A selection from The Concept of Nature
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
A selection from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Society & Culture/Places & Travel
John James Audubon,
A selection from Birds of America
Mary Austin,
A selection from The Land of Little Rain
William Bartram
A selection from Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida,...
Henry Walter Bates
A selection from The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Isabella Bird
A selection from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
John Burroughs,
A selection from The Spell of the Yosemite
Richard Burton,
A selection from Lake Regions of Central Africa
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,
A selection from Two Years Before the Mast
Margaret Fuller
A selection from At Home and Abroad; or,
Things and Thoughts in America and Europe
W.H. Hudson,
A selection from The Naturalist in La Plata
Washington Irving,
A selection from The Voyage
Samuel Johnson
A selection from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Lewis and Clark,
A selection from The Journals of Lewis And Clark
John Muir,
A selection from The Mountains of California
Frederick Law Olmsted
A selection from the report Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove
Francis Parkman
A selection from The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
Marco Polo,
A selection from The Travels of Marco Polo
John Wesley Powell,
A selection from The Canyons of the Colorado
Theodore Roosevelt,
A selection from An Autobiography
Ernest Shackleton,
A selection from South
John Millington Synge,
A selection from In Wicklow and West Kerry
Henry David Thoreau
A selection from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
George Washington
A selection from Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, Etc.
Lady Francesca Wilde
A selection from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland
Mary Wollstonecraft
A selection from Letters on Sweden, Norway, And Denmark
Sports & Recreation/Outdoor
Roy Chapman Andrews,
Hunting the Great Invisible
Davy Crockett
A selection from Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee
Zane Grey,
Tales of Fishes
Theodore Roosevelt,
Hunting the Grisly
Ernest Thompson Seton
A selection from The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey Of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
Izaak Walton,
A selection from The Compleat Angler Sports & Recreation/Professional
Cy Block,
So You Want to be a Major Leaguer?
Babe Ruth,
Babe Ruth's Book of Baseball |
