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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.
Poems
Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

1783 141 ed.
Fables
Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

1678 345 ed.
Συμπόσιον
Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

1559 351 ed.
Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
Inferno
Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

1767 446 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

1678 683 ed.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.

1845 1032 ed.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...

1908 1299 ed.
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.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

1600 818 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

1603 2377 ed.
Little Women
Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

1848 1888 ed.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

1880 1988 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

1200 6084 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

1600 1594 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

1686 2420 ed.
Sapiens
Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.

2011 86 ed.