Homer:The Iliad
The Odyssey
Here is the place to curl up with a good book and relax. Put on some good music, get a relaxing beverage, and settle down for a good read.
Links to complete classic works readable online.
The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
The Deeds of the Divine Augustus by Augustus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Julius Caesar:
The African Wars
The Alexandrian Wars
The Civil Wars
The Gallic Wars
The Spanish Wars
Elements by Euclid
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Hesiod:
Shield of Heracles
Theogeny
Works and Days
Homer:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
History of Rome by Livy
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Histories by Tacitus
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Virgil:
The Aeneid
The Georgics
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Augustine:
City of God
Confessions
The Thirteenth Vision of the Third Part of Hildegard von Bingen
The Decameron by Boccaccio
The Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Geoffrey Chaucer:
The Canterbury Tales
Troilus and Criseyde
The Book of the Duchess
The Divine Commedy by Dante - Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
Le Morte D'Arthur (volume 1) by Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte D'Arthur (volume 2) by Sir Thomas Malory
Heimskringla or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
The Story of the Heath-Slayings
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes
The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo Grammaticus
The High History of the Holy Grail
Chretien DeTroyes:
Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart
Cliges
Erec et Enide
Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Poetry of Henry VIII (Note: some links at this site are broken)
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
John Milton:
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Classics in the History of Psychology many authorsExperiments in Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus
Charles Darwin:
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A.M. Turing
Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage
Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
Sigmund Freud:
The Interpretation of Dreams
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
William James:
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Principles of Psychology
Mars by Percival Lowell
Stars and Atoms by A.S. Eddington
Popul Vuh Maya Book of Creation
Enuma Elish Epic of Creation
Papyrus of Ani Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson
Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Avesta (Zoroastrian):
Vendidad
Visperad
Yasna
Upanishads:
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Isha Upanishad
Aitareya Upanishad
Katha Upanishad
Kena Upanishad
Mandukya Upanishad
Shwetasvatara Upanishad
The Dhammapada of Gautama Buddha
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Koran (Qur'an)
Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
For a good selection of more modern classics, try The Online Literature Library
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