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Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

1883 157 ed.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

1791 679 ed.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

1776 222 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.
Gorin no sho
Gorin no sho

by Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson

Martial arts are the warrior's way of life.

1963 97 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

1807 372 ed.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

1791 279 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

1855 755 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.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

1800 177 ed.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

1920 495 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 foreign...

1686 2420 ed.
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"

1872 750 ed.
Tao te Ching
Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

1842 648 ed.