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...

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

Two Treatises on Government

by John Locke, Ian Shapiro

1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

Socrates: I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, Ariston's son.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a shilling.

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

A history of the English-speaking peoples

by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchhill

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district i...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Eu nasci escrava, mas nunca soube disso até que seis anos de uma infância feliz tivessem se passado.

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...

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.

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

La Poetica

by Aristotle

We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

The House of the Dead

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN the remoter parts of Siberia, in the midst of the steppes, the mountains, or the pathless forests, lie scattered a fe...

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

SUN TZU SAID: The military is a great matter of the state.

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

En este libro subyacen muchas cuestiones que, estudiadas con paciencia, pueden mostrar el extraño significado de ser neg...