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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
H. P. LovecraftThe 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. LovecraftThe 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 NietzscheAlthough 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 SniderThe 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. WellsThe 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 ThoreauHenry 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 ThoreauA 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 ThoreauA 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..