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The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
The Collector
by John Fowles
WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right o...
The Book of Tea
by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...
Vom Kriege
by Carl von Clausewitz
Despite its comprehensiveness, systematic approach, and precise style, On War is not a finished work.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
THE stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...
À rebours
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
THE Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être da...
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...