The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Jonathan Swift

CHAPTER I. The Author gives some account of himself and family--His first inducements to travel--He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life--Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput--Is made a...

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, on the 30th of November.

Jonathan Swift

To the Right Honourable John Lord Somers 37 The Bookseller to The Reader 41 The Epistle Dedicatory ...

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...