The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe’s own childhood memories and prodigious...
Сочинение «О библиотеках» (лат. «De bibliothecis syntagma») фламандского гуманиста Юста Липсия (1547–1606) положило начало двум гуманитарным наукам,...
For this collection, Andrew Lang gathered Danish, Swedish, Sicilian, African, Catalan, Japanese, German, and French stories.
While the stories may not be familiar to you, they are an excellent insight into various cultures, to show that despite our...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next seven...