Found 925 results for "Agriculture in literature"
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 ...
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
by Thomas Hardy
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathise with the Chuzzlewit Family without ...
Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan, Richie Chevat
What should we have for dinner?
Sketches by Boz
by Charles Dickens, Marcus Stone
DAMON and Pythias were undoubtedly very good fellows in their way: the former for his extreme readiness to put in specia...
Fields, Factories, and Workshops
by Peter Kropotkin
Who does not remember the remarkable chapter by which Adam Smith opens his inquiry into the nature and causes of the wea...
The People of the Abyss
by Jack London
"But you can't do it, you know," friends said, to whom I applied for assistance in the matter of sinking myself down int...
The autocrat of the breakfast-table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I WAS just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of ar...
Sketches New and Old
by Mark Twain
My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery...