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Henry Adams Thomas Bailey Aldrich Aristotle Marcus Aurelius

Francis Bacon

George Borrow Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edmund Burke
Thomas Carlyle G.K. Chesterton Cicero Confucius
Joseph Conrad Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Charles Darwin Thomas de Quincey
René Descartes Charles Dickens Albert Einstein T.S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Henry Watson Fowler Benjamin Franklin
Sigmund Freud Jean Froissart John Galsworthy Elizabeth C. Gaskell
Ulysses S. Grant Eliot Gregory Edward Everett Hale William Harrison
Lafcadio Hearn Hippocrates Stephen Leacock Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Lister John Locke Jack London Martin Luther
Niccolò Machiavelli Karl Marx H.L. Mencken Sir Thomas More
Sheikh Nefzaoui Thomas Paine Ambroise Paré Louis Pasteur
Plato Plutarch Sir Walter Raleigh John Silas Reed
James Ford Rhodes Jacob A. Riis Theodore Roosevelt Jean Jacques Rousseau
Bertrand Russell Margaret Sanger Friedrich von Schiller  George Bernard Shaw
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Upton Sinclair Adam Smith
Lytton Strachey J.M. Synge William M. Thackeray Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy Anthony Trollope Mark Twain Mallanaga Vatsyayana
Jules Verne Voltaire Horace Walpole Izaak Walton
Booker T. Washington H.G. Wells Edith Wharton Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde Mary Wollstonecraft Charlotte M. Yonge  

Henry Adams   (1838-1918)

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres The Education of Henry Adams (Autobiography)
 
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich   (1836-1907)

An Old Town by the Sea

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Aristotle   (384-322 BC)

A Treatise on Government Ethics
Poetics Politics
The Categories The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher
Marcus Aurelius   (121-180)

Meditations

Thoughts of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Francis Bacon   (1561-1626)
Essays, Civil and Moral The Proficience and Advancement of Learning
Valerius Terminus, or the Interpretation of Nature
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George Borrow   (1803-1881)

Isopel Berners Letters of George Borrow
The Bible in Spain Wild Wales
Zincali, Gypsies of Spain
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton   (1803-1873)
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
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Edmund Burke   (1729-1797)
A Letter to a Noble Lord Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
On Taste On the Sublime and Beautiful
Reflections on the Revolution in France Selections from the Speeches and Writings
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke,
Vol. I
  II  III  IV  V  VI  VII  VIII  IX
  X  XI  XII
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. (1886)

Thomas Carlyle   (1795-1881)
Characteristics Early Kings of Norway
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Vol. 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 
11
  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  Appendix
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University (2nd April 1866)
Latter-Day Pamphlets On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
On the Choice of Books Past and Present
Sir Walter Scott The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle
and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  II
The French Revolution The Life of John Sterling
G. K. Chesterton   (1874-1936)
A Short History of England All Things Considered
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Eugenics and Other Evils
George Bernard Shaw Heretics
Orthodoxy Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson St Francis
The Appetite of Tyranny The Barbarism of Berlin
The Defendant The Victorian Age in Literature
Twelve Types Utopia of Usurers & Other Essays
Varied Types What's Wrong With The World
 
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Short Stories, Drama & Poetry sections!
 
Marcus Tullius Cicero   (106-43 BC)
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream History of Famous Orators
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age  

Confucius   (551?-479? BC)
The Analects of Confucius  
Joseph Conrad   (1857-1924)
A Personal Record Notes on Life and Letters
Notes on My Books Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic (1912)
Some Reminiscences Certain Aspects of the Admirable Enquiry
into the Loss of the Titanic (1912)
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.   (1815-1882)
Two Years before the Mast  
Charles Darwin   (1809-1882)
Geological Observations of Volcanic Islands Geological Observations on South America
Insectivorous Plants More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. 1  2
Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants On the Origin of Species
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin The Descent of Man
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species The Effects of Cross- and Self-Fertilisation
in the Vegetable Kingdom
The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection (6th Ed.) The Power of Movement in Plants
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs The Variation of Animals & Plants under Domestication, Vol. 1  2
The Voyage of the Beagle  
Thomas de Quincey   (1785-1859)
Autobiographical Sketches Biographical Essays
Memorials and Other Papers, Vol. 1  2 Miscellaneous Essays
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 1  2 The Caesars
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater
Theological Essays and Other Papers, Vol. 1  2 The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 1  2
 
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René Descartes   (1596-1650)
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting
the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
The Principles of Philosophy
Charles Dickens   (1812-1870)
A Child's History of England  American Notes
Miscellaneous Papers Pictures from Italy
Speeches: Literary and Social
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Albert Einstein   (1879-1955)
Letter to President Roosevelt (1939) Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Sidelights on Relativity Why Socialism? (1949 essay)  

T.S. Eliot   (1888-1965)
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry The Sacred Wood — Essays on Poetry and Criticism
 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson   (1803-1882)
English Traits Essays (1907 compilation)
Essays, First Series (1841) Essays, Second Series (1844)
Representative Men The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle
and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  II
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Epictetus   (55?-135?)
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus  
Henry Watson Fowler   (1858-1933)
The King's English (2nd edition, 1908)  
Benjamin Franklin   (1706-1790)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin  

Sigmund Freud   (1856-1939)
A Young Girl's Diary, Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology (Psychoanalysis for Beginners, 1920)
The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd edition, translated 1911) Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Jean Froissart   (1337?-1405?)
The Chronicles of Froissart
(A historical narrative of the first half of the Hundred Years' War
between France and England, 1337-1453)

John Galsworthy   (1867-1933)
Censorship and Art The Complete Essays
 
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell   (1810-1865)
Life of Charlotte Brontë (Version 1) Life of Charlotte Brontë (Version 2)
 
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Ulysses S. Grant   (1822-1885)
First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1869) Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and Youngest Sister
Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1873) State of the Union (1869-1876)
The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant  
Eliot Gregory   (1854-1915)
The Ways of Men Worldly Ways and Byways
Edward Everett Hale   (1822-1909)
How To Do It The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters & Journals
 
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William Harrison   (1534-1593)
Description of Elizabethan England, 1577  
(taken from Holinshed's Chronicles)
 

Lafcadio Hearn   (1850-1904)
A Ghost Story A Strange Tale of Cannibalism 
Books and Habits Chita: A Memory of Last Island
Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, Vol. 1  Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, Vol. 2 
In Ghostly Japan Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Kokoro Modern Superstition
New Orleans Superstitions   The Last of the Voudoos
Theosophy Two Years in the French West Indies
 
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Hippocrates   (460?-377? BC)
The Oath of Hippocrates The Law of Hippocrates
Stephen Leacock   (1869-1944)
My Discovery of England The Dawn of Canadian History
The Mariner of St. Malo
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Abraham Lincoln   (1809-1865)
First Inaugural Address (1861) State of the Union (1861-1864)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1862) Gettysburg Address (1863)
Second Inaugural Address (1865) Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections, 1910)
Lincoln Letters Political Debates with Stephen A. Douglas
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 1  2  3  4  5  6  
Joseph Lister   (1827-1912)
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery  

John Locke   (1632-1704)
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume II
Some Thoughts Concerning Education Toleration
Two Treatises of Government
Jack London   (1876-1916)
John Barleycorn Revolution and Other Essays
The People of the Abyss War of the Classes
 
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Martin Luther   (1483-1546)
A Treatise on Good Works Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate
An Open Letter on Translating
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Concerning Christian Liberty
Letter to Pope Leo X (6th Sept. 1520) Martin Luther's 95 Theses
Martin Luther's Large Catechism Martin Luther's Small Catechism
The Hymns and Small Cathecism The Smalcald Articles

Niccolò Machiavelli   (1469-1527)
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy...
The Prince  
Karl Marx   (1818-1883)
Das Kapital Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Selected Essays The Communist Manifesto
H.L. Mencken   (1880-1956)
A Book of Burlesques A Book of Prefaces
Damn! — A Book of Calumny Europe After 8:15
In Defense of Women Mark Twain's Americanism
The American Language  
Sir Thomas More   (1478-1535)
Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation Utopia
Sheikh Nefzaoui   (16th? Century)
The Perfumed Garden  
Thomas Paine   (1737-1809)
A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal Common Sense
The Age of Reason The American Crisis
The Rights of Man  
Ambroise Paré   (1510?-1590)
Journeys in Diverse Places  

Louis Pasteur   (1822-1895)
Scientific Papers  

Plato   (428?-347 BC)
Alcibiades I Alcibiades II
Apology Charmides
Cratylus Critias
Crito Euthydemus
Euthyphro Gorgias
Ion Laches
Lesser Hippias Lysis
Menexenus Meno
Meno, second part Parmenides
Phaedo Phaedrus
Philebus Protagoras
Sophist Statesman
Symposium The Republic
Theaetetus Timaeus
Plutarch   (46?-120)
The Complete Works, Vol. 3: Essays and Miscellanies The Parallel Lives
Sir Walter Raleigh   (1552?-1618)
I Am But Dust
(Sir Walter Raleigh's last letter to his wife Elizabeth
prior to his ex
ecution in the Tower of London, 1618)  
Style
The Dutie of a King in His Royal Office (1599)
The Discovery of Guiana (1595)
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John Silas Reed   (1887-1920)
Ten Days That Shook the World  
James Ford Rhodes   (1848-1927)
History of the American Civil War, 1861-1865  
Jacob August Riis   (1849-1914)
Hero Tales of the Far North How the Other Half Lives
The Battle with the Slum The Making of an American
Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen
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Theodore Roosevelt   (1858-1919)
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open African and European Addresses
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents History as Literature
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
New York Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail
Roosevelt's Letters to His Children State of the Union, 1901-1908
The Naval War of 1812 The Rough Riders
The Strenuous Life — Essays & Addresses The Winning of the West, Vol.1  2  3  4
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Jean Jacques Rousseau   (1712-1778)
A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation
of the Inequality among Mankind
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
The Confessions
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Bertrand Russell   (1872-1970)
Political Ideals Proposed Roads to Freedom
The Analysis of Mind The Problems of Philosophy
Why I Am Not a Christian  
Margaret Sanger   (1879-1966)
The Pivot of Civilization Woman and the New Race
Friedrich von Schiller   (1759-1805)
Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Schiller's Philosophical Letters
The History of the Revolt of the Netherlands The Thirty Years' War
 
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George Bernard Shaw   (1856-1950)
A Treatise on Parents and Children Preface to Androcles and the Lion
Preface to Major Barbara The Perfect Wagnerite
 
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley   (1797-1851)
 Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley   (1792-1822)
A Defence of Poetry, and Other Essays
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Upton Beall Sinclair   (1878-1968)
The Profits of Religion (Fifth Edition, 1926)
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Adam Smith   (1723-1790)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations  

Lytton Strachey   (1880-1932)
Eminent Victorians Queen Victoria
J.M. Synge   (1871-1909) 
In Wicklow and West Kerry The Aran Islands
 
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William Makepeace Thackeray   (1811-1863)
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo The Second Funeral of Napoleon
 
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Henry David Thoreau    (1817-1862)
A Plea for Captain John Brown A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Walden
Walking Wild Apples
Leo Tolstoy   (1828-1910)
Boyhood Childhood
On the Significance of Science and Art Youth
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Anthony Trollope   (1815-1882)
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
North America, Vol. 1  2 Thackeray
The Life of Cicero, Vol. 1  
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Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]   (1835-1910)
A Burlesque Autobiography A Tramp Abroad
Chapters from My Autobiography Christian Science
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Essays on Paul Bourget
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences Following the Equator
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays In Defence of Harriet Shelley
Is Shakespeare Dead? Life on the Mississippi 
Mark Twain's Speeches On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Roughing It Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
The Innocents Abroad What Is Man? - and Other Essays
 
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Mallanaga Vatsyayana   (3rd? Century AD)
The Kama Sutra Le Kama Soutra

Jules Verne   (1828-1905)
A Voyage in a Balloon
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Voltaire [François Marie Arouet]   (1694-1778)
Letters on England Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
 
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Horace Walpole   (1717-1797)
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume I  II  III  IV
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Izaak Walton   (1593-1683)
The Complete Angler — The Contemplative Man's Recreation The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert
Booker T. Washington   (1856-1915)
The Negro Problem Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
H.G. Wells   (1866-1946)
A Modern Utopia A Short History of the World (1922)
An Englishman Looks at the World Anticipations
Certain Personal Matters First and Last Things
In The Fourth Year — Anticipations of a World Peace (1918) Mankind in the Making
The Research Magnificent What is Coming?
 
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Edith Wharton   (1862-1937)
Fighting France In Morocco
 
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Walt Whitman   (1819-1892)
Complete Prose Works
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Oscar Wilde   (1854-1900)
De Profundis Essays and Lectures
Intentions The Soul of Man under Socialism
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Mary Wollstonecraft   (1759-1797)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  (1792) Letters Written During a Short Residence
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796)
 
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Charlotte M. Yonge   (1823-1901)
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II  History of France
Life of John Coleridge Patteson,
Missionary Bishop the Melanesian Islands
Pioneers and Founders
The Chosen People Unknown to History
Young Folks' History of England Young Folks' History of Rome
 
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