The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
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'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos,...
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to...
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories...
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
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'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming...
Jason and Medea
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'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them,...
Greek Mythology
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful...
Socrates' Defence
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account...
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
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'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from...
A Pair of Silk Stockings
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'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with...
Atheist's Mass
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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an...