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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on January 22, 1927 and it remained unrevised and unpub..

The Shadow Out of Time

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stor..

Homer and Classical Philology

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Although he later rose to prominence as an innovative and controversial philosopher whose ideas influenced everyone from existentialist thinkers to the Nazi movement, Friedrich Nietzsche was trained i..

Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary

Denton Jaques Snider

The Odyssey starts by organizing itself; it maps out its own structure in what may be called a General Introduction. Herein lies a significant difference between it and the Iliad, which has simply an ..

The Sleeper Awakes

H. G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has..

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's influential essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, or simply Civil Disobedience, was first published in 1849. It argued that individuals should not let governments override the..

A Plea for Captain John Brown

Henry David Thoreau

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Bro..

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a book by Henry David Thoreau. It is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, that Thoreau..