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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.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

1855 755 ed.
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice

by John Ruskin

I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...

1851 99 ed.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

1855 639 ed.
Tao te Ching
Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

1842 648 ed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

1876 2622 ed.
Letters to a young poet
Letters to a young poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Your letter reached me just a few days ago.

1656 144 ed.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

IT WAS A QUEER, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New Yo...

1948 159 ed.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

1478 722 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

1843 3198 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

1859 465 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

1854 1139 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

CALL me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

1813 4038 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
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 foreig...

1686 2420 ed.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon, Antonio-Prometeo Moya

ONE summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in ...

1965 55 ed.
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The title Voices of the Night originally was used by Mr. Longfellow for the poem Footsteps of Angels ; then he gave it t...

1800 185 ed.
Modern painters
Modern painters

by John Ruskin

1. IN taking up the clue of an inquiry, now intermitted for nearly ten years, it may be well to do as a traveller would,...

1800 95 ed.
Flower Fables
Flower Fables

by Louisa May Alcott

THE summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth, while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk.

1854 448 ed.