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The Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
OUR long months of preparation and planning for the greatest amphibious operation in history ended on D Day, Tune 6, 104...
Evelina
by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...
She
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
by Sir Isaac Newton
If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.
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 anybody else, these page...
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
In one of Hans Christian Andersen's last tales, the search is on for "the most incredible thing."
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...
Orthodoxy
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant
IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...