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The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience.

1817 266 ed.
The Wealth of Nations
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 ...

1776 123 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

1486 537 ed.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

by Sir Isaac Newton

If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.

1687 104 ed.
À rebours
À rebours

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

THE Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a...

1884 336 ed.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN WE COMPARE the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of th...

1859 259 ed.
The natural
The natural

by Bernard Malamud, SparkNotes

Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail and hold the spurting flame in his cupp...

1952 75 ed.
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice

by John Ruskin

I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...

1851 99 ed.
The Art of Loving
The Art of Loving

by Erich Fromm

Is love an art?

1956 101 ed.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Jenseits von Gut und Böse

by Friedrich Nietzsche

THE Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosopher...

1885 415 ed.
A Study of History
A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...

1900 119 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

1884 584 ed.
A Modern Utopia
A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

1900 102 ed.
How to live on 24 hours a day
How to live on 24 hours a day

by Arnold Bennett

Yes, he's one of those men that don't know how to manage.

1900 168 ed.
Essay concerning human understanding
Essay concerning human understanding

by John Locke

Since it is the UNDERSTANDING that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and domin...

1689 188 ed.
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
A Vindication of Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...

1792 309 ed.
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

A WELL-KNOWN SCIENTIST (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.

1988 119 ed.