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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.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Συμπόσιον
by Πλάτων
Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
Three Invalids-Sufferings of George and Harris.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"
Book of common prayer
by Church of England, J. A. Maurault
Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...
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...
Voyage au Centre de la Terre
by Jules Verne
Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...
Le avventure di Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.