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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
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 ...
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 Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
Princesse de Clèves
by Madame de La Fayette, Everett Carll Ladd
THE last years of Henri II's reign saw a display of opulence and gallantry such as has never been equalled in France.
