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The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
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[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Yogananda Paramahansa
THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...
Lives
by Plutarch
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
TOWARD THE MIDDLE of the sixteenth centry, the prolific Gliorgio Vasari, a mediocre painter but a respectable architect ...
The Cyberiad
by Stanisław Lem
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so you...
Illusions perdues
by Honoré de Balzac
AT the time when this story begins, the Stanhope press and inking-rollers were not yet in use in small provincial printi...
Tom Sawyer Abroad
by Mark Twain
DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
Weaving the Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
"When I first began tinkering with a software program that even gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it ...
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car
by Ian Fleming
Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and elect...
My inventions
by Nikola Tesla
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Ben and Me
by Robert Lawson, Kazuko Komine
SINCE THE RECENT death of my lamented friend and patron Ben Franklin, many so-called historians have attempted to write ...