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The 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.[1][2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery,...

Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes affectionately says of Dr. Watson,...

 This book aims to give a view, clearer and more complete than has been given before, of the personality of Abraham Lincoln. A life so full of incident and a character so many-sided as his can be understood only with the lapse of time. A sense of the exhaustless interest of that life and character,...

Includes an active table of contents so you can easily navigate to each book. Table of Contents The Expressman and the Detective (1874) The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (1875) The Spiritualists and the Detectives (1876) Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives...

The legend of the magician Faust and his compact with the Devil comes from remote antiquity. At first in the form of folk tales in many lands, through ballads and the primitive drama it found its way into literature. It remained for the master-poet, Goethe, to fuse all the elements of the legend into...

An English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking...

在一系列说唐通俗小说中，《粉妆楼全传》以其香艳的书名而颇具特色。也许正因为书名的香艳，以致仅从字面看这部小说 实难与其他说唐小说为伍，所以有的刊本（如清同文堂本、文光堂本等）书题前又有“续说唐志传”等字样；到了清末光绪刊本，更在书前另称《绘图罗家将粉妆...

The Outdoor Girls series is a product of the Stratemeyer Syndicate and was published from 1913 to 1933 by Grosset & Dunlap and focuses on the various activities of a group of girls who form a Camping and Tramping Club. As a result of the girls' outdoor activities they become known as the "Outdoor...

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; I think, therefore I am), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method (1637 – written in French but with inclusion of "Cogito ergo sum") and §7 of part I of Principles...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Contents Eve's Diary, Complete The...

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch The Testimony of the Rocks by Hugh Miller Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions by T. W. Doane Varieties...

A Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist known today especially for his radical philosophical empiricism and scepticism. He wrote The History of England which became a bestseller, and it became the standard history of England in its day. Contents The History...

Contents CHAPTER I: Battle The Man-Wind and the Woman-Wind Master Tēng-t’u The Orphan The Sick Wife Cock-Crow Song The Golden Palace “Old Poem” Meeting in the Road Fighting South of the Castle The Eastern Gate Old and New South of the Great Sea The Other Side of the Valley Oaths of...

Table of Contents The Analects of Confucius The Analects of Confucius II The Sayings of Mencius The Shi-King The Travels of Fâ-Hien The Sorrows of Han Confucius (aka K'ung Fu-Zi) (c. 551 BC – c. 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher whose book, The Analects of Confucius guided...