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The Art of War
The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

1900 1542 ed.
Dell'Arte della Guerra
Dell'Arte della Guerra

by Niccolò Machiavelli

MANY ARE now of the opinion, my dear Lorenzo, that no two things are more discordant and incongruous than a civil and a ...

1540 140 ed.
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

1494 99 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

1854 1138 ed.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

1883 157 ed.
The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money getting
The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money getting

by P. T. Barnum

IN THE UNITED STATES, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make...

1880 146 ed.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century.

1845 1032 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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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.

1850 688 ed.
How to live on 24 hours a day
How to live on 24 hours a day

by Arnold Bennett

Yes, he's one of those men that don't know how to manage.

1900 168 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
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...

1686 2420 ed.
Utopia
Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

1518 198 ed.
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz

by Georg Baselitz, Rainer M. Mason

1970 113 ed.
King Henry V
King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

1600 631 ed.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

1908 1346 ed.
कामसूत्र
कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

1883 381 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

1859 465 ed.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins, William Collins

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

1859 651 ed.