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Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontèˆ
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot, Rosalyn Landor
A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to ...
La chartreuse de Parme
by Stendhal
ON the 15th of May, 1796, General Bonaparte marched into the city of Milan, at the head of the youthful army which had j...
Chinese Cinderella
by Adeline Yen Mah
As soon as I got home from school, Aunt Baba noticed the silver medal dangling from the left breast pocket of my uniform...
The True Believer:Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer
It is a truism that many who join a rising revolutionary movement are attracted by the prospect of sudden and spectacula...
Freedom in exile
by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama
fled Tibet on 31 March 1959.