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Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

1874 551 ed.
The Second World War
The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

1948 203 ed.
Das Kapital
Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumu...

1867 189 ed.
Du contrat social
Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

1762 216 ed.
De la démocratie en Amérique
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.

1835 421 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 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.
Roughing It
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...

1872 408 ed.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

1883 157 ed.
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

1848 459 ed.
Twelve years a slave
Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...

1853 1029 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

1855 755 ed.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarre...

1939 321 ed.
Бѣсы
Бѣсы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...

1871 171 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.
The Constitution of the United States and related documents
The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

1787 146 ed.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

1898 563 ed.
Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.

1862 526 ed.