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The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James, Dr. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience is the text of two sets of lectures that the American philosopher and psychologist...

1817 266 ed.
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.
À rebours
À rebours

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

THE Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a...

1884 336 ed.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of ...

1859 259 ed.
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
A Vindication of Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...

1792 309 ed.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

1890 151 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

1884 584 ed.
A Study of History
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...

1900 119 ed.
A Modern Utopia
A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned bef...

1900 102 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

1783 141 ed.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

DEINDE CONSIDERANDUM EST de præsidentia angelorum super creaturam corporalem.

1467 277 ed.
Poetics
Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

1536 252 ed.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

1922 185 ed.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

1899 552 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
कामसूत्र
कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chap...

1883 381 ed.
La Poetica
La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

1479 498 ed.
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style

by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.

1920 273 ed.