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Principles of Political Economy
Principles of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill

1. HAVING proceeded thus far in ascertaining the general laws of Value, without introducing the idea of Money (except oc...

1848 133 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

1883 157 ed.
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

HAVE you heard of the great Forest of Burzee?

1902 560 ed.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 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.
The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

1800 177 ed.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.

1889 788 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

1876 2622 ed.
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

1494 99 ed.
The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger

by Mark Twain

Ocurrió en el año 1590... durante el invierno.

1916 82 ed.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain

The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journ...

1758 250 ed.
Le suicide
Le suicide

by Émile Durkheim

THERE are two sorts of extra-social causes to which one may, a priori, attribute an influence on the suicide-rate; they ...

1850 77 ed.
A Tramp Abroad
A Tramp Abroad

by Mark Twain

One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventuro...

1878 197 ed.
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom S...

by Mark Twain

"Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!"

1922 68 ed.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain

I, the Sieur Louis de Conte, was born in Neufchateau, the 6th of January, 1410; that is to say, exactly two years before...

1895 82 ed.