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Hyde park sketches
Hyde park sketches

by A. R Western

1880 1 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

1854 1139 ed.
American notes
American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

1800 233 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.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
Cranford
Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

1853 473 ed.
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft

by Hubert Howe Bancroft

When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...

1882 133 ed.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.

1905 152 ed.
Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield
Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who conti...

1111 609 ed.
Totem und Tabu
Totem und Tabu

by Sigmund Freud

Primitive man is known to us by the stages of development through which he has passed: that is, through the inanimate mo...

1913 51 ed.
Thelma
Thelma

by Marie Corelli

MIDNIGHT,-without darkness, without stars!

1870 68 ed.
The Bible expositor
The Bible expositor

by Society for promoting Christian knowledge, London. [from old catalog]

1856 1 ed.