Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

Girl in translation

by Jean Kwok

After Babel

by George Steiner

ACT II of Cymbeline closes with a monologue by Posthumus.

Ὀδύσσεια

by Ὅμηρος

The war lasted so very, very long.

Babel

by R. F. Kuang, Michel Pagel

By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton’s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the...

Das Schloß

by Franz Kafka

IT WAS late in the evening when K. arrived.

The Odyssey

by Ὅμηρος, Emily R. Wilson

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Dante the Pilgrim wakes from a stupor to discover that he's lost in a dark forest and can't remember anything from the n...

The setting sun

by 太宰 治

Mother uttered a faint cry.

Translations

by Brian Friel

Bible

by Bible

The first phrase in the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1 means "In the beginning."

The Holy Qur'an

by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

1 In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Ferdydurke

by Witold Gombrowicz

Tuesday morning I awoke at that pale and lifeless hour when night is almost gone but dawn has not yet come into its own.

Poetics

by Aristotle

In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

Because readers of the Te-tao ching fall into two groups with different levels of expertise, I have repeated the transla...

Sappho

by Sappho

Physical chemistry

by Robert A. Alberty, Robert J. Sibley

Kokoro

by 夏目漱石, Yoko Ogihara

Mythologies

by Roland Barthes

The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess.