A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

The pleasure which all derive from the expositions of Faraday.

The historical importance of Zen can hardly be exaggerated.

This volume is full of the most fascinating romances of achievement under difficulties.

Architects of Fate, or, Steps to Success and Power, by Orison Swett Marden, is a book.

A recognized Latin American history masterpiece The History of the Conquest of Peru.

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s.

The birth of the Internet has created a global community of buying, sharing, and selling goods texts.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

An artist describes finding natural beauty in the world around us.

Unstuck in time, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

The Sirens of Titan was perhaps the novel that began the Vonnegut phenomenon with readers.