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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.
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.
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal go...

1788 349 ed.
Faust
Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

1800 633 ed.
Tax administration
Tax administration

by United States. General Accounting Office

1986 151 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

1608 1614 ed.
Book of common prayer
Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

1537 545 ed.
Ἰλιάς
Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

1505 1084 ed.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1900 118 ed.
Das Kapital
Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...

1867 189 ed.
Domestic medicine
Domestic medicine

by William Buchan M.D., William Nisbet

1769 202 ed.
Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune
Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune

by Gaston Leroux

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille.

1908 160 ed.
The Professor
The Professor

by Charlotte Brontë

THE other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a year since to ...

1856 210 ed.
Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)
Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)

by Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Marshall C. Yovits

A mobile computing environment involves accessing information through a wireless network connection.

1995 69 ed.