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Essays: First Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism.

The "New England Reformers" was a lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson read before "The Society" in Amory Hall, on Sunday, March 3, 1844. "The Society" has been identified as the American Anti-Slavery Society, led by William Lloyd Garrison.

Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

Robert Helmont (1874; English: Robert Helmont, The Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871 (1892)) is a novella by French author Alphonse Daudet. It is partly based on Daudet's actual experiences during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, as described in the Preface. The book was originally published by Dentu...

Between the middle of April and the end of May 1871, London resident Karl Marx collected and compiled English, French, and German newspaper clippings on the progress of the Paris Commune, which pitted the radical workers of Paris against conservative forces from outside the city. Marx had access...

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860.

O Bom Soldado Švejk (ou As Aventuras do Bom Soldado Svejk no Brasil) é o título abreviado de uma novela satírica e de humor negroinacabada de Jaroslav Hašek, que se passa durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. O título checo original da obra é Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové...

The narrator, speaking before a scientific conference, describes his former life as an ape. His story begins in a West African jungle, in which a hunting expedition shoots and captures him. Caged on a ship for his voyage to Europe, he finds himself for the first time without the freedom to move...

La parabole de la Loi (allemand: Vor dem Gesetz) est une parabole racontée par un prêtre à Joseph K., le personnage principal du roman Le Procès de Franz Kafka. Contrairement au Procès qui ne sera publié qu'à titre posthume, la parabole a fait l'objet, du vivant de l'auteur, d'une...

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (German: Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde) is an elaboration on the classical Principle of Sufficient Reason written by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer as his doctoral dissertation in 1813. The principle...

Le Manteau (en russe : Шинель) est une nouvelle fantastique de Nicolas Gogol publiée en 1843. La traduction française habituelle du titre russe est Le Manteau. Cependant, une traduction plus exacte serait La Capote, qui était le pardessus d'hiver traditionnellement porté...

Les Soirées du hameau près de Dikanka (Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки), aussi connu sous le titre plus court Les Soirées du hameau est un recueil de nouvelles de Nicolas Gogol, paru entre 1830 et 1832. La première nouvelle a été publiée en février-mars 1830 dans Les...