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Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...
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...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.
The Book of Tea
by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
Principles of Political Economy
by John Stuart Mill
1. HAVING proceeded thus far in ascertaining the general laws of Value, without introducing the idea of Money (except oc...
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
Идиот
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
В конце ноября, в оттепель, часов в девять утра, поезд Петербургско-Варшавской железной дороги на всех парах подходил к ...
War and Peace
by Лев Толстой
"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...
Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être da...
Genji monogatari
by Murasaki Shikibu
IN the reign of a certain Emperor, whose name is unknown to us, there was, among the Niogo and Koyi of the Imperial Cour...