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The ups and downs of the commoners

Overview: The novel " The ups and downs of the commoners " is a magnum opus of the written ten years after the retirement of a middle school teacher (penname Dongshan Yishi) in Sichuan, China. The book has four volumes, and 1.30 million hinese characters. As shown below: brie...

– by Dongshan Yishi

The Art of War

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy a...

– by Sun Tzu

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.

– by Harriet Jacobs

Armazindy

James Whitcomb Riley poems book published in the 1894 book Armazindy and received very negative reviews that referred to poems like "The Little Dog-Woggy" and "Jargon-Jingle" as "drivel" and to Riley as a "worn out genius". Most of his growing number of cri...

– by James Whitcomb Riley

Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025.

– by John Lesslie Hall

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, prior to publication the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words without Wilde's knowledge.

– by Oscar Wilde

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have be...

– by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Morgue Ship

This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors--and he would be among the living again.

– by Alice MacGowan

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.

– by Jack London

100 LESSONS EVERY GREAT MAN WANTS YOU TO KNOW

100 LESSONS EVERY GREAT MAN WANTS YOU TO KNOW is a book of advice written from a great man's point of view to those who want to know how to succeed and how to be prosperous. This book offers wisdom to those who want to get to the top, to those who are on their way to the top, and to those who wan...

– by Matshona Dhliwayo

Dinner with King Solomon

DINNER WITH KING SOLOMON is the story of a man named Kevin who lost everything: his wife, his children, and his business. He is close to giving up on life, but then King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, pays him a visit.

– by Matshona Dhliwayo

50 Lessons Every Wise Mother Teaches Her Son

50 Lessons Every Wise Mother Teaches Her Son is a book of counsel written from a mother's point of view to her son. This book offers wisdom to both mothers and sons and transcends the boundaries of race, status, and creed. It offers priceless wisdom any mother can give and timeless advice any son...

– by Matshona Dhliwayo

Creativity, The Book

The Book of Creativity is a tome of wisdom, written for everyone on a creative journey. The book offers irrefutable advice to those who want to flourish creatively, setting itself apart from the rest of the self-help genre with its ageless insights.

– by Matshona Dhliwayo

Lalibela's Wise Man

After his father passes away, Christian is denied his inheritance, disowned by his brothers, and thrown out of the family mansion. Life takes a terrible turn until he embarks on a life changing trip to Ethiopia to meet Lalibela’s wisest man.

– by Matshona Dhliwayo

The Art of Winning

The Art of Winning is a definitive collection of maxims on mastering the rules and strategies of winning in life. Matshona Dhliwayo’s depth of understanding makes this powerful and unique work relevant for your day to day success.

– by Matshona Dhliwayo

A Doll's House

A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879.

– by Henrik Ibsen

Kari the Elephant

A nine-year-old boy raises and trains Kari the elephant, learning about the law of the jungle and the intelligence and the dignity of elephants.

– by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Lucy In The Sky

Lucy Noel, a young adult diagnosed with lung cancer, is ready to make peace with the world. But once she finds her beau, Arlen James, she finds that life is worth living, even if you’re dying. Make the best of your life on the planet so you can go out with a bang.

– by Karianne Gabaldon

Night

"Night" is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel...

– by Elie Wiesel

White Fang

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906.

– by Jack London

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship wi...

– by Charles Dickens

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine. In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.

– by Henry James

Anthem

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age.

– by Ayn Rand

Little Women

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher.

– by Louisa May Alcott

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process o...

– by Charles Darwin

Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.

– by Aesop

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.

– by Mark Twain

The Canterville Ghost

"The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887.

– by Oscar Wilde

The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published.

– by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head on 21 January 1921.

– by Agatha Christie

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased about, the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after offering him c...

– by Beatrix Potter

WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE

WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE is a book, significantly and distinctively diverging from the contest of domestic and even regional - Balkan, literary publications by being written in three languages: in Serbian, English and Arabic. WHO IS THE POET, DE FACTO? Saša Milivojev, acts from the shadow, from...

– by Saša Milivojev