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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 ed.
The Second World War
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...

1948 203 ed.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...

1702 104 ed.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

1900 476 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

1200 6084 ed.
Genji monogatari
Genji monogatari

by Murasaki Shikibu

Among the women in the palace of the Emperor was one named Kiritsubo (Paulownia Court), who though only an Imperial Conc...

1900 121 ed.
Little Women
Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

1848 1888 ed.
Kokoro
Kokoro

by 夏目漱石, Yoko Ogihara

1914 84 ed.
Bushidō
Bushidō

by Inazo Nitobe, Stefano Daniel

Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up s...

1899 258 ed.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea ...

1997 73 ed.
The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTU...

by Thomas L. Friedman

No one ever gave me directions like this on a golf course before: "Aim at either Microsoft or IBM."

2005 51 ed.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

ON THE VERY EVE of the birth of the Third Reich a feverish tension gripped Berlin.

1901 44 ed.
Shi ji
Shi ji

by Sima Qian, Burton Watson

The forbears of the Qin were descendants of Emperor Zhuan Xu.

1550 151 ed.
Seta
Seta

by Alessandro Baricco

1920 54 ed.
Shōgun
Shōgun

by James Clavell

Blackthorne was suddenly awake.

1975 23 ed.