Two my author's essays, yeah a poem and an essay can: I wanted to include in it, most briefly, as it only possible; kind of essence: about the nitty-gritty of the life and the death.
In this book the author tries to compare the historical Jesus with the mythological, seeking to show that the Jesus of the Gospels probably never really existed, having emerged from a fusion of ancient pagan...
Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513,...
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal...
The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion...
"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which...
In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely...
Neither a Borrower is a novella set in the near future, where debt in America has skyrocketed and debtor's prisons have been reinstated. But the prison term isn't the worst part of the punishment. The story...
More Stories of the Four Million: The Gold that Glittered; Babes in the Jungle; The Day Resurgent; The Fifth Wheel; The Poet and the Peasant; The Robe of Peace; The Girl and the Graft; The Call of the Tame;...
Jesse Livermore's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a 1923 classic considered by many, including us at Goldmau, to be one of the best books on investing ever written. Source: http://new.goldmau.com/reference.php?id=56...
From the introduction: "I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most...
Published in 1912, The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser, is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire, which includes The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947).