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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...
A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...
Principles of Political Economy
by John Stuart Mill
THERE are very few scientific books whose permanent place in literature seems so well established as that of John Stuart...
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 Federalist, or, The New Constitution
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal go...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.
Tao te Ching
by 老子
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
A Mind That Found Itself
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...