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Burmese Days
by George Orwell
U PO KYIN, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda.
The Art of Public Speaking
by Stephen E. Lucas
Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker.
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
As armas, & os barões aſsinalados, / Que da Occidental praya Luſitana, / Por mares nunca de antes nauegados, / Paſſaram,...
Ἀνάβασις
by Xenophon
Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.
The World Almanac for Kids
by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel
One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...
Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunche...
The discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
IT IS MORE THAN TWENTY MONTHS SINCE WE WERE BROUGHT HERE, more than twenty months of my ninth term of imprisonment.
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
Angst beherrscht diese Erinnerungen, eine ständige Angst.
Our American hero
by J. K. Ronayne
There has been a lot of interest lately in the year of Our Lord 2007 concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 14t...
The Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
"EVER since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wi...
Implementation of the Helsinki accords
by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe