Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Henri Bergson

What does laughter mean?

Henri Bergson

CHAPTER I THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE--MECHANISM AND TELEOLOGY Of duration in general--Unorganized bodies and abstract time--Organized bodies and real duration--Individuality and the process of growing...

Henri Bergson

TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY EDWIN E. SLOSSON NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1913, By THE INDEPENDENT COPYRIGHT, 1914, By B. W. HUEBSCH First printing, April, 1914 Sec...

Henri Bergson

ADELPHI TERRACE _English translation first published June 1915_ _Second impression, July 1915_ _Third impression, August 1915_ (_All rights reserved_) CONTENTS ...

Niccolò Machiavelli

by Nicolo Machiavelli Translated by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469.

Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI APPENDIX A PARODY PREFACE In the month of ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

All children, except one, grow up.

Hermann Hesse

FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the sha...