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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the...

This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life. (Summary by Aylmer Maude, Translator)

Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox...

Three Lives (1909) was American writer Gertrude Stein's first published book. The book is separated into three stories, "The Good Anna", "Melanctha", and "The Gentle Lena". The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town...

This is the first edition of MATISSE, PICASSO AND GERTRUDE STEIN WITH TWO OTHER SHORT STORIES by Gertrude Stein, published in 1933 in Paris. This is dubbed a Plain Edition on the copyright page and is one of a limited edition of 500 copies published in Paris. It has tan wraps and a slipcase, both...

Chesterton expounds the 'genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist,...

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together.

The Heroic Slave, a heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction written by notable abolitionistFrederick Douglass, at the time a fugitive slave based in Boston. When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for...

Full text of "John Brown. An address by Frederick Douglass, at the fourteenth anniversary of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881". Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer,...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same...

Written by one of the world's master essayists, this collection richly expresses Chesterton's thoughts on Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand, Charles II, Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle, Tolstoy, Savonarola, and Sir Walter Scott. The book is a perfect companion...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941), was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh...

La Métaphysique est un ensemble de quatorze livres écrits par Aristote réunis uniquement après sa mort. Le titre Métaphysique n'est pas d'Aristote lui-même, mais a été donné par le bibliothécaire Andronicos de Rhodes, qui a rassemblé et organisé les livres. La Métaphysique constitue un...

Narcisse ou l'Amant de lui-même est une pièce de théâtre en un acte et en prose de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. C'est une œuvre (comédie) de jeunesse, l'auteur l'ayant écrite entre 18 et 22 ans, plusieurs fois remaniée. À son arrivée à Paris, Marivaux l'avait lue et apporté quelques corrections....