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Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great: Plato...

Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that...

Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau. The book, other than...

Terre des hommes est un recueil d'essais autobiographiques d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, paru en février 1939 en France. Dans cette œuvre autobiographique, Saint-Exupéry évoque une série d’événements de sa vie, surtout son travail pour l'Aéropostale. L'élément central de son récit est...

Anatole France (1844 – 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of...

Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government....

he Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism. It follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and...

Travail salarié et Capital est un ouvrage de Karl Marx qui reprend les conférences données en 1847 à l'Association des ouvriers allemands de Bruxelles et publiées dans la Neue Rheinische Zeitung entre le 5 et le 11 avril 1849. L'ouvrage traite de la force de travail et de la théorie de la valeur.

Gustave Aimard, dont le nom (par adoption) est Olivier Gloux, né le 13 septembre 1818 à Paris où il est mort le 20 juin 1883, est un écrivain français, auteur de romans d’aventures souvent publiés en feuilleton dans Le Moniteur, la Presse ou La Liberté. Jean Marie Victor Jules Berlioz d'Auriac,...

Faim (en norvégien Sult) est un roman de l'écrivain norvégien Knut Hamsun, publié dans sa version définitive en 1890, après une parution partielle dans le magazine danois Ny Jord en 1888. Ce roman de la solitude, inspiré de l'expérience de l'auteur avant qu'il ne rencontre le succès, relate...

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence,...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death on 9 June 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who is in love...

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudgewas one of two novels (the other was The Old Curiosity Shop) that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock. Barnaby Rudge is largely...

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20 episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House...