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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.
An autobiography
An autobiography

by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

READER: Just at present there is a Home Rule wave passing over India.

1927 140 ed.
Pensées
Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

1 The Psalms sung throughout the world.

1670 395 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. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.

1889 788 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 Vampyre
The Vampyre

by John William Polidori

1819 149 ed.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

by Gabriel García Márquez, Luisa Rivera

THE COLONEL took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left.

1961 86 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.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...

1954 251 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism

by John Stuart Mill

THERE ARE few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might h...

1863 95 ed.
Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

1776 123 ed.
Der Antichrist
Der Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche

LET us look each other in the face.

1895 384 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

1854 1139 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 ed.
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A GLANCE at the occupational statistics of any country of mixed religious composition brings to light with remarkable fr...

1700 137 ed.