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徬徨 (Wandering or Pang Huang)

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Xun Lu

Wandering or Pang Huang was Lu Xun's second collection of stories. It was published near the end of 1925 and included 11 stories written bet…

Chapter XXXVIII, Part 1

In The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II

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Xueqin Cao

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…

Maxims 151-160

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián

300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

BOOK IV. CHAP. III.

In Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness.…

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William Godwin

It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…

What, Really, is Success?

In Successward: A Young Man's Book for Young Men

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Edward Bok

A short book on how to succeed in life, written by a young man, for young men. - Summary by TriciaG

Making Speeches

In A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington

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Walter Clinton Jackson

Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman …

V. The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob

In My Larger Education

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Booker T. Washington

This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…

Illusions, Part 1

In On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime

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Hugo Münsterberg

Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…

Defence of Criminals: A Criticism of Morality (Part 1)

In Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays

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Edward Carpenter

This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicte…

Chapter XI - Fire Alarms and Automatic Fire Extinguishers

In The Romance of Modern Mechanism

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Archibald Williams

In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very d…