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The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

1890 151 ed.
Diary
Diary

by Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...

1825 166 ed.
Heidi
Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

1885 180 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

1564 323 ed.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

1900 476 ed.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

1667 396 ed.
How to live on 24 hours a day
How to live on 24 hours a day

by Arnold Bennett

Yes, he's one of those men that don't know how to manage.

1900 168 ed.
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides

by Moses Maimonides

MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.

1473 116 ed.
Twelve years a slave
Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

1853 1029 ed.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

by Joseph Murphy

You have infinite riches within your reach.

1963 130 ed.
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz

by Georg Baselitz, Rainer M. Mason

1970 113 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

1859 465 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...

1678 683 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought
The science of getting rich, or, financial success through c...

by Wallace D. Wattles, Ruth L Miller

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or success...

1910 235 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.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

1818 832 ed.
Imitation of Christ
Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

1568 394 ed.