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Begin with selected passages from literature, essays and speeches. Discover the original voice, and read it in your own language.
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Literature · 1888
The Happy Prince
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphir…English · Selected passages
02 Ideas & philosophy · 1854
Walden: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, whe…English · Selected passages
03 Speeches · 1863
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are cre…English · Selected passages
04 Short stories · 1905
The Gift of the Magi
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable…English · Selected passages
05 Literature · 1813
Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 1
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.…English · Selected passages
06 Ideas & philosophy · 1841
Self-Reliance
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better fo…English · Selected passages
07 Ideas & philosophy · 1791
The Thirteen Virtues
It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would c…English · Selected passages
08 Short stories · 1908
To Build a Fire
Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-…English · Selected passages
09 Short stories · 1884
La Parure
C'était une de ces jolies et charmantes filles, nées, comme par une erreur du destin, dans une famille d'employés. Elle n'avait pas de dot, pas d'espérances, aucun m…Français · Selected passages
10 Literature · 1914
こころ (Kokoro)
私はその人を常に先生と呼んでいた。だからここでもただ先生と書くだけで本名は打ち明けない。これは世間を憚かる遠慮というよりも、その方が私にとって自然だからである。私はその人の記憶を呼び起すごとに、すぐ「先生」といいたくなる。筆を執っても心持は同じ事である。よそよそしい頭文字などはとても使う気にならない。…日本語 · Selected passages
11 Literature · 1915
Die Verwandlung
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig h…Deutsch · Selected passages
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