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The Poetics of Aristotle | |
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 | |
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII | |
Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans | |
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) | |
Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes | |
The Odyssey of Homer | |
Clouds | |
Theaetetus
Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade. | |
Crito | |
Hellenica | |
The Odyssey Done into English prose | |
The Birds | |
Parmenides
Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. | |
The Economist | |
The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor | |
Plutarch's Morals | |
The Athenian Constitution | |
The Memorabilia | |
On Horsemanship | |
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry | |
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino | |
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War | |
Statesman
Statesman (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικός) discusses God's role in maintaining the universe and describes the statesman as a good shepherd who promotes intermarriage between the orderly and courageous. | |
Sophist
Sophist (Ancient Greek: Σοφιστής) discusses being and not-being while drawing a distinction between the philosopher and the sophist. | |
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
Cratylus
Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the object named and may have originated from God. | |
The Works of Horace | |
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies | |
Charmides
Charmides (Χαρμίδης) discusses the virtue of temperance. | |
Book of illustrations : ancient tragedy | |
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II | |
Agesilaus | |
The Apology | |
Laches
Laches (Λάχης) discusses examples of courage including weapons masters, soldiers who stand firm in battle, ferocious animals and the wise person who endures evils. | |
The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse | |
Philebus
Philebus (ΦΙΛΗΒΟΣ) discusses pleasure, wisdom, soul and God. | |
Lysis
Lysis (Λύσις) discusses friendship and love between the good and bad. | |
Menexenus
Menexenus (ΜΕΝΕΞΕΝΟΣ) is thought to have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue consists of Socrates (ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ) recounting a funeral oration he claims to have learned from the female philosopher Aspasia (ΑΣΠΑΣΙΑ) who may have been wealthy, a courtesan or both. | |
Euthydemus
Euthydemus (Εὐθύδημος) and Dionysodorus the sophists discuss the meaning of words with Socrates. | |
Hiero | |
The Acharnians | |
The Hymns of Prudentius | |
The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse | |
The Cavalry General | |
The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala | |
On Revenues | |
The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes | |
The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis | |
Baseball ABC | |
The Sportsman | |
Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated | |
The Trojan Women of Euripides | |
Eryxias
Eryxias (ΕΡΥΞΙΑΣ) may not have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue discusses whether wealth has value and what the aim of philosophy should be. | |
The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad | |
The Rhesus of Euripides | |
The A, B, C. With the Church of England Catechism | |
Alcibiades II |
By: Valmiki | |
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The Ramayana Book 2
The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata. It is the story of Rama, who emabrks on an epic journey followed by the fight with Ravana, the demon king who abducted Rama's wife, Sita. The epic depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. (Introduction by Om123) | |
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala |
By: Various | |
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Language Learning Collection
This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource. The Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on various languages, recount experiences of language learning and encountering new languages or provide guides for correct pronunciation, writing or discourse in a language. These works could describe English or any other language whatsoever, from Latin to Sumerian, Chinese to Wampanoag, Esperanto to Swahili (etc... | |
Best Russian Short Stories
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers who have been unjustly neglected, this anthology is indispensable. | |
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates." | |
Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl |
By: Violet Jacob (1863-1946) | |
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Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus |
By: W. F. (William Franklin) Webster (1862-1936) | |
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English: Composition and Literature |
By: W. G. (Walter George) Ivens (1871-) | |
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Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands |
By: W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins (1817-1887) | |
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Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers |
By: W. M. Flinders Petrie | |
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Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. | |
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty |
By: Wadham Pigott Williams (1822?-) | |
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A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire |
By: Walter John Clark | |
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International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar |
By: William A. Clouston (1843-1896) | |
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Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers |
By: William Allen Bixler (1876-1961) | |
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Light On the Child's Path |
By: William Barnes (1801-1886) | |
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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect |
By: William Benson (1682-1754) | |
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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. |
By: William Caxton (1422?-1492?) | |
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Dialogues in French and English |
By: William Edward Maxwell (1846-1897) | |
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A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay |
By: William Gates (1863-1940) | |
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Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs |
By: William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) | |
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Essays on Russian Novelists |
By: William Ridley (1819-1878) | |
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Gurre Kamilaroi, or, Kamilaroi Sayings (1856) |
By: William Stevens Balch (1806-1887) | |
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Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. |
By: William Strunk Jr. | |
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in U.S. high school and university composition classes. The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, “a few matters of form”, and a list of commonly "misused" words and expressions... |
By: William Swinton (1833-1892) | |
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New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words |
By: William Tuckwell (1829-1919) | |
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Horace |
By: Władysław Stanisław Reymont (1867-1925) | |
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The Comedienne |
By: Xenophon | |
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Xenophon's Anabasis
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. “Anabasis” is a Greek work which meane “journey from the coast to the center of a country.” This is Xenophon’s account of his march to Persia with a troop of Greek mercenaries to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from his brother Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role... |