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Principles of Political Economy
by John Stuart Mill
1. HAVING proceeded thus far in ascertaining the general laws of Value, without introducing the idea of Money (except oc...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
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...
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
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 foreign...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
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.
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
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...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
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.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
IN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.