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The golden bough
The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

1890 371 ed.
Pensées
Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

Depuis Voltaire, une longue tradition critique voit en Pascal à la fois un grand auteur classique et un dangereux séduct...

1670 395 ed.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

1817 266 ed.
The Prophet
The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

1900 569 ed.
Dune
Dune

by Frank Herbert

In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy...

1965 120 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

1783 141 ed.
Villette, a novel
Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

1853 519 ed.
Utopia
Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

1518 198 ed.
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

1715 188 ed.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

1467 277 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 ed.
Du contrat social
Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

1762 216 ed.
... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

by Viktor E. Frankl

THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of...

1946 111 ed.
Leviathan
Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this a...

1651 99 ed.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

1791 679 ed.
Mémoires
Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

1830 104 ed.
The Prince
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...

1515 1407 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
A Study of History
A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...

1900 119 ed.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

1776 222 ed.