The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her fo...
The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 book by James E. Talmage that summarizes the Great Apostasy fro...
The problem of life consists in learning how to live. It is like the problem of addition or subtraction to the schoolboy. When mastered, all difficult...
“Except those great crimes, which the few, calling themselves governments, practice upon the many, by means of organized, systematic extortion and tyr...
In his witty and insightful book, The Pleasures of Ignorance, Robert Lynd argues that there is a certain joy to be found in not knowing everything. He...
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of th...
Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sa...
“Tabai al-Istibdad wa-Masari al-Isti’bad” (The Nature of Tyranny and the Paths of Enslavement) by Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi is a profound treatise on...
Paul Clifford is a complex and compelling novel that explores the nature of crime and society. The novel follows the story of Paul Clifford, a young m...
This collection of articles by Mariano José de Larra, a prominent Spanish journalist and writer of the 19th century, offers a sharp and witty critique...
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South is a novel by Asa Zadel Hall that explores the social conditions of African Americans in the post-reconstruc...
