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by Henry David Thoreau * Philosophy
Two years in a cabin Thoreau built himself by Walden Pond, and what it taught him about how little a life needs. Eighteen chapters, 1854, followed by the 1849 essay on refusing to pay a tax to a state he thought was acting unjustly. Public domain.
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay * Founding Documents
The eighty-five newspaper essays of 1787-88, written as Publius, arguing New York into ratifying the Constitution. Each paper is a chapter, with its author in the title. No. 10 (faction) and No. 51 (checks and balances) are the ones most often quoted. Public domain.
by Sun Tzu (translated by Lionel Giles) * Philosophy
Thirteen short chapters on strategy from about the fifth century BC, in Giles's 1910 translation with his bracketed commentary and the classical Chinese commentators left in place. The introduction is a long scholarly essay on who Sun Tzu was; skip to chapter one if you just want the text. Public domain.
by Robert Louis Stevenson @ Fiction
Jim Hawkins finds a dead pirate's map in the Admiral Benbow inn, sails for the treasure with a crew that turns out to be Long John Silver's, and narrates most of what follows. Six parts, thirty-four chapters, 1883. Public domain.
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Told in letters from an Arctic expedition that picks up Victor Frankenstein on the ice: how he assembled and animated a creature, abandoned it, and what the creature did about that. The 1831 text. Public domain.
by H. G. Wells ~ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
An inventor builds a machine, rides it to the year 802,701, and finds humanity split into the gentle Eloi above ground and the Morlocks below. Then he goes further. 1895; the book that named time travel. Public domain.
by H. G. Wells ~ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cylinders fall on Horsell Common outside Woking and the Martians that climb out begin burning their way toward London. Book One is the narrator's flight through Surrey; Book Two the weeks under occupation. 1898, the first alien-invasion novel. Public domain.
by G. K. Chesterton @ Fiction
Subtitled A Nightmare. A poet-detective infiltrates the seven-man Central Anarchist Council, whose members are named for the days of the week, and finds the conspiracy is not what it appears. 1908, public domain.
by Agatha Christie @ Fiction
Christie's first novel and Hercule Poirot's first case (1920): the wealthy Emily Inglethorp is poisoned with strychnine in her locked bedroom at Styles Court, and a convalescing Hastings calls in the Belgian refugee he knows from before the war. Public domain.
by Jules Verne @ Fiction
Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune at the Reform Club that he can circle the globe in eighty days, and leaves that evening with his new valet Passepartout - and a detective who is sure he is a bank robber. 1873, translated by George Makepeace Towle. Public domain.
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