The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Vom Kriege

by Carl von Clausewitz

Despite its comprehensiveness, systematic approach, and precise style, On War is not a finished work.

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...

Dell'Arte della Guerra

by Niccolò Machiavelli

MANY ARE now of the opinion, my dear Lorenzo, that no two things are more discordant and incongruous than a civil and a ...

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

It was love at first sight.

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...

Laws, etc

by United States

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

Estaba tirado boca abajo, sobre una capa de agujas de pino color castaño, con la barbilla apoyada en los brazos cruzados...

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less.

Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mount...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountain...

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.