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Selected Book Extracts

Selected extracts from important books in chronological order.

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Homer
Odyssey

Sappho
What is
best

Aeshop
selected
fables

Laozi
Tao Te
Ching

Pythagoras
The Golden
Verses

Confucius
The
Analects

Aristotles
Ethics
Rhetorics

Demosthenes
On the
Crown

Epicurus
Letter to
Menoeceus

Ovid
Metamorphoses

Seneca
letters
to Lucilius

Plutarch
Parallel
lives

Lucian
Dialogues of
the dead

Aurelius Marcus
Mediatations

Kalidasa
Salutation
to the Dawn

Hatim Al-Tai
On
On Avarice

Bai Li
Drinking Alone
by Moonlight

Fu Du
Song of
the Wagons

Khayyam
Omar
Rubaiyat

Rumi
The day
I ve died

Saadi
On Friends
and Enemies

Aquinas Thomas
Summa
Theologica

Dante
The Divine
Comedy

Boccaccio
Decameron
Boccaccio
Decameron

Hafez
All the
Hemispheres

Bauniyya Aisha
excerpts from
her poetry

Nanak
Guru
Granth Sahib

Montaigne

Essays

Kornaros
ERotokritos

Bacon
Fransis
Essays

Shakespeare
William
Sonnets

Calderon
Life is
a dream

Gracian
The Art of
Worldly Wisdom

Milton John
Paradise
Lost

Rochefoucauld
Maxims and
Reflections

Moliere
Selected
Monologues

Pascal
Pensées
(Thoughts)

Locke John
Human
Understanding

Spinoza
Baruch
The Ethics

Racine

Phedre

Lucian
Dialogues
of the Dead

Swift Jonathan
Gulliver's
Travels

Pope
Ode on
Solitude

Montesquieu
Persian
letters

Voltaire
Lisbon

Rousseau
Confessions

Diderot
Encyclopaideia

Smith Adam
The Theory of

Moral Sentiments

Kant Immanuel
Pure
Reason

Paine Thomas
Age
of logic

Blake William
Proverbs
of Hell

Schiller
Ode
to Joy

Burns Robert
Tam
o Shanter

Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman

Issa
Kobayashi
Haikus

Chateaubriand
Paris,
December 1821

Fourier Charles
Selected
Writings

Novalis
Hymns to
the Night

Austen Jane
Pride and
Prejudice

Stendhal
The red
and the black

Phu Sunthorn
Jewel of
Forgiveness

Nizami
Verses
about father

Schopenhauer
The world
as will..

Keats John
Bright
Star

Heinrich Heine
A
Woman

Balzac
Cousin
Betty

Hugo Victor
Les
Miserables

Dumas Alexandre
The Three
Musketeers

Tyutchev

Silentium

Feuerbach
The Essence
of Christianity

Darwin
On the Origin
of Species

Edgar Allan Poe
The
Raven

Gogol Nikolai
Dead
Souls

Tennyson
Ulysses

Proudhon
What is
property

Musset Alfred
Ballad to
the Moon

Thackeray William
The vanity
fair

Dickens Charles
A tale
of 2 cities

Kierkegaard
Fear and
Trembling

Petrovic-Njegos
The Mountain
Wreath

Acharya
The grass
Cutter

Σεβτσένκο
Will and
Testament

Μπακούνιν
Η παρισινή
κομμούνα

Thoreau
Henry
Walden

Μαρξ Καρλ
Κομμουνιστικό
μανιφέστο

Whitman Walt
A clear
Midnight

Dostoevsky
Crime and
Punishment

Baudelaire
Get
drunk

Dickinson Emily
I am nobody
Who are you?

Rossetti Christina
Who has seen
the wind

Twain Mark
The adventures of
Tom Sawyer

Ullman
Samuel
Youth

James Williams
Religious
Experience

Kropotkin
The Conquest
of Bread

France Anatole
The Crime of
Sylvestre Bonnard

Abai Kunanbaev
Book
of words

Maupassant
The
Necklace

Eminescu
What is
Love?

Martí Jose
A Sincere
Man I Am

Malatesta
Errico
Anatchy

Wilde Oscar
The Ballad of
Reading Gaol

Rimbaudbr
A season
in hell

Zamudio Adela
Born
a man

Freud Sigmund
The Interpretation
of Dreams

Shaw
Bernard
Pygmalion

Tesla Nikola
My
inventions

Conrad
Heart of
Darkness

Palamas
Motionless
Life

Bergson Henri
The Creative
Mind

Chekhov
Let me
Sleep

Rizal Jose
Touch me
not

Cavafy
Ithaka

Ζαχάουι Τζαμίλ
Ερωτήσεις για
τον Θεό.

Unamuno
Tragic Sense
of Life

Kipling
if

Yeats W. B.
Vacillation

Rolland
Jean
Christophe

Dario Ruben
Fatality
...

Masters
Spoon river
Anthology

Gorky Maxim
One Autumn
Evening

Gandhi
The 10
principles

Goldman Emma
Anarchism and
Other Essays

Lenin
The State and
Revolution

Adler Alfred
What life could
mean to you

Montessori
The Absorbent
Mind

Shawqiν Ahmed
Stand For
Teacher

Luxemburg Rosa
Political
Writings

Valery Paul
The Graveyard
By The Sea

Russell Bertrand
The Conquest
of Happiness

Maugham
Of Human
Bondage

Frost Robert
The Road
Not Taken

Mann Thomas
The magic
mountain

Machado Antonio
Cantares

Jung Carl
Memories
Dreams..

Schweitzer
Out of My Life
and Thought

London Jack
The call
of the wild

Hesse
Hermann
Siddhartha

Iqbal Muhammad
The Struggle of
the Soul

Hazoume Paul
Song of
the River

Gebre-Medhin
I have
a vision

Sandburg
Chicago
Poems

Sinclair Upton
The
Jungle

Leino
Eino
poems

Tekeyan Vahan
It's raining
my son

Naidu Sarojini
In The Bazaars
of Hyderabad

Apollinaire
Song
for Lue

Zweig Stefan
Chess
Story

Jimenez
I am
not I

Woolf Virginia
Mrs
Dalloway

Joyce
James
Ulysses

Kazantzakis
Zorba
the Greek

Gibran
Khalil
Your Children

Under
Marie
Ecstasy

Istrati
On the docks
of Braila

Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's
Lover

Porchia
Voices

Pound Ezra
Canto
I

Lewis Sinclair
It Can't
Happen Here

Eliot T. S.
The Hollow
Men

Pessoa
The book of
Disquiet

Akhmatova
Requiem

Mistral Gabriela
Teacher's
prayer

McKay Claude
If we must
die

Mayakovsky
Cloud
in trousers

Sucre
Ramos
Hailstorm

Pasternak
Boris
Poems

Miller Henry
Tropic
of Cancer

Milley Edna
Love is
not all

Javad Ahmad
Who
am I

Tabidze
Galaktion
The Moon over..

Vallejo Cesar
The Black
Heralds

Buck Pearl
East wind
West wind

Parker Dorothy
A Certain
Lady

cummings e.e
i carry your
heart with me

Yesenin Sergei
/The collected
poems

Ελυάρ Πωλ
Να κοιμάσαι
Η αγαπημένη

Horkheimer Max
Eclipse
Of Reason

Piazet Jean
The Psychology
of Intelligence

Fitzgerald
The Great
Gatsby

Reich Wilhelm
Listen
Little man

Bataille Georges
Story of
the Eye

Faulkner
As I
lay down

Brecht
From A German
War Primer

Marcuse Herbert
One-Dimensional
Man

Asturias
Miguel
The fortune

Hemingway
The old man
and the sea

Borges
You..
Lesrning

Remarque
All Quiet on
the Western Front

Nazrul Kazi
The Rebel
Adorn her

Kawabata
The House of
Sleeping..

Fromm Erich
The art
of loving

Prevert
Paris
at night

Rabearivelo
Blue
Notebooks

Quasimodo
The Sea Still
Sounds

Meireles
Cecilia
Introduction

Malraux Andre
The age of
oppression

Hughes Langston
Kids
who die

Steinbeck
The grapes
of Wrath

Hikmet Nazim
The most
beautiful sea

Rogers Carl
On becoming
a person

Popper Karl
The Open Society
and Its Enemies

Sowol Kim
The
Sea

Suarez
Clementina
Combat

Orwell George
1984
Animal farm

Nin Anais
Delta
of Venus

Κενώ Ρεϊμόν
Exercises
in Style

Yourcenar
Memoirs
of Hadrian

Neruda Pablo
The
queen

Skinner B. F.
Walden
Two

Kosovel Srecko
Ljubliana
is asleep

Sartre
The
Wall

Koestler Arthur
Scum
of the Earth

Cervera Campos
Ballad for
the absent trees

Frankl Viktorbr> Man's Search
for Meaning

Beckett
Waiting for
Godott

Σενγκόρ Λεοπόλντ
Μαύρη
γυναίκα

Natsagdorj
My native
land

Beauvoir
The second
sex

Fleming
The
Goldfinger

Levi-Strauss
Sad
Tropics

Ionesco
Rhinoceros

Weil Simone
Waiting
for God

Shaaban
Robert
Amina

Kavvadias
Kuro
Siwo

Genet Jean
Our Lady
of the Flowers

Elytis
Axion
Esti

Williams Tennessee
The Glass
Menagerie

Bishop Elizabeth
One
Art

Faiz
Ahmad
poems

Naes Arne
Deep
Ecology

Camus Albert
The
Rebel

Romilly
Magic and
rhetoric in...

Paz Octavio
Sunstone

Thomas Dylan
And death shall
have no dominion

Nesin Aziz
Be
Silent

Virginia
Satir
Peoplemaking

Dadie Bernard
Dry your tears,
Africa!

Bell
The
Clown

Clarke Arthur
2001
Space Odyssey

Λέβι Πρίμο
Εάν αυτό είναι
ο άνθρωπος

Lessing Doris
The Golden
Notebook

Bukowski
Charles
Women

Asimov Isaac
I
Robot

Noonuccal
WE are
going

Benedetti
Tactic and
Strategy

Vian Boris
The
Deserter

Lem Stanislaw
Solaris

Freire Paulo
Pedagogy of
the Oppressed

Kerouac
Jack
On the Road

Xenakis Iannis
Formalized
Music

Vonnegut
A Man Without
a Country

Anwar
Chairil
Aku

Saramago Jose
Περί
Φωτίσεως

Craveirinha
Poem of a
Future Citizen

Calvino Italo
The invidible
cities

Gordimer Nadine
July's
People

Behan
Brendan
Hostage

Mailer Norman
The Naked and
the Dead

Capote Truman
In Cold
Blood

Mishima Yukio
Sun
and Steel

Silveira
Onesimo
Emigration

Depestre Rene
Caribbean
Mother

Castro Fidel
On hiw own
words

Ginsberg
Allen
howl

Marquez
100 Years
of Solitude

Andrade
Pinto
The valuable time..

Fuentes Carlos
This
I Believe

Aitmatov
Chingiz
Τζαμίλια

Sekara
Mahagame
poems

Walcott Derek
Homer

Hughes Ted
Love
Song

Rubadiri
Thoughts
after Work

Achebe Chinua
Refugee Mother
And Child

P'Bitek Okot
The song
of Lativo

Plath Sylvia
Mirror
Words

Umberto eco
Foucault's
Pendulum

Updike John
Thoughts While
Driving Home

Jara Victor
September
1973

Sihab Hamam
Take me a few
years back

Τουμπόο Έντγουιν
Ulysses by
the Merlion

Moe Tin
Each With Its
Own Grace

Seng Goh-Poh
Lines from
Batu Ferringhi

Konie Gwendoline
We are
equals.

Oz Amos
A tale of
love and darkness

Galeano2
Upside
Down

Mernissi Fatima
Beyond
the Veil

Rajendra
Death
of a village

Darwish Maḥmud
Identity
Card

Phuntsho Karma
Histoyry of
Bhutan