If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with the faculty of speech, or gazelles that...

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom...

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian...

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. This story...

Você as vezes imagina que há bons livros que poderia apreciar, mas que ainda não conhece? O objetivo desta coleção é apresentar, através de primeiros capítulos de várias...

Who was John Milton? He was a man going about his daily life like any of us in 17th century England, (except that he was a genius of course). Take time to read about a day in his...

This book was written in 1912 by John Muir, the greatest naturalist of the twentieth century. This work is deals with Valei Yosemite, created by President Roosevelt who had been...

It is a multilingual collection of Christmas texts, which contains short stories, essays , poems and passages recorded by a variety of narrators in English, German and Portuguese .

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late...

This is a collection of 12 creepy stories by that master of creepiness: Allan Poe. The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart, The Masque of the...