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Man and Superman
Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning' letters.

1903 130 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.
Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.

1961 147 ed.
Bambi
Bambi

by Felix Salten

He came into the world in the middle of the thicket, in one of those little, hidden forest glades which seem to be entir...

1900 111 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

1488 1063 ed.
Ab urbe condita
Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...

1481 558 ed.
Discours de la méthode
Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provide...

1644 163 ed.
American notes
American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

1800 233 ed.
A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.

1885 115 ed.
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours

by Jules Verne

MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.

1872 426 ed.
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

1874 551 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

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

1776 222 ed.
Πολιτικά (Politiká)
Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The Incompleteness of the Ethics.

1492 224 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

1609 646 ed.