Found 21,235 results for "Modern Civilization"
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
Two Treatises on Government
by John Locke, Ian Shapiro
1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I HAD THIS story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...
Villette, a novel
by Charlotte Brontë
My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.