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Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street

Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's ..

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooker..

The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings

Thomas Henry Huxley

The Conditions Of Existence As Affecting The Perpetuation Of Living Beings Lecture V. (of V.), Lectures To Working Men, at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, On Darwin's work: "Origin of Species"...

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

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 mor..

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by many critics to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the ..

The Principles of Scientific Management

F. W. Taylor

President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question of national e..

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most f..

The Antichrist

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz dela..