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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

1776 123 ed.
De la démocratie en Amérique
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.

1835 421 ed.
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

1877 244 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
American Gods
American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Shadow had done three years in prison.

2001 72 ed.
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

1939 69 ed.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt

by Henrik Ibsen

A slope of birch-trees near AASE's farm.

1867 111 ed.
Bracebridge Hall
Bracebridge Hall

by Washington Irving

ON again taking pen in hand, I would fain make a few observations at the outset, by way of bespeaking a right understand...

1800 166 ed.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane

To the front of Hohen-Cremmen, country seat of the von Briest family since the time of Elector Georg Wilhelm, bright sun...

1894 67 ed.
Angels in America
Angels in America

by Tony Kushner, Tony Kushner

The last days of October.

1993 19 ed.