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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
Mémoires
by Giacomo Casanova
"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
Le rouge et le noir
by Stendhal
The little town of Verrieres is one of the prettiest in Franche-Comte.
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Vom Kriege
by Carl von Clausewitz
Despite its comprehensiveness, systematic approach, and precise style, On War is not a finished work.
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?