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The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text.The Tao Te Ching is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism.Lao-tuz was the founder of...
A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson.Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by...
Benedetto Croce is considered the most important Italian philosopher of the twentieth century.The mini-books of Passerino publisher are easy, essential and complete guides to...
"Modern India" was written in 1903-04 by William Eleroy CurtisWilliam Eleroy Curtis (1850 - 1911) was traveling correspondent for two Chicago newspapers, the...
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving,Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859)...
"The Knights" is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War.Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.