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Il principe
by
Niccolò Machiavelli
First published in 1515
638 editions
in
13 languages
— 96 previewable
Walden
by
Henry David Thoreau
First published in 1854
365 editions
in
7 languages
— 69 previewable
Essais
by
Michel de Montaigne
First published in 1600
294 editions
in
9 languages
— 43 previewable
History
by
Herodotus
First published in 1494
282 editions
in
11 languages
— 94 previewable
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
by
Samuel Johnson LL.D.
,
Warren L. Fleischauer
,
Félix Paknadel
,
Octavie Belot
,
James MacAulay
, and
Samuel Johnson
First published in 1759
224 editions
in
8 languages
— 42 previewable
Moralia
by
Plutarch
First published in 1500
211 editions
in
12 languages
— 39 previewable
Utopia
by
Thomas More
First published in 1518
198 editions
in
10 languages
— 38 previewable
The Essays of Elia
by
Charles Lamb
First published in 1823
187 editions
in
2 languages
— 61 previewable
Essays
by
Francis Bacon
First published in 1618
188 editions
in
7 languages
— 48 previewable
Du contrat social
by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
First published in 1762
183 editions
in
6 languages
— 40 previewable
Poems
by
Thomas Hardy
First published in 1889
174 editions
in
1 language
— 33 previewable
Rubāʻīyāt
by
Omar Khayyam
First published in 1870
151 editions
in
31 languages
— 15 previewable
Essays
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
First published in 1800
133 editions
in
2 languages
— 48 previewable
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
by
Hubert Howe Bancroft
First published in 1882
133 editions
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1 language
— 89 previewable
De officiis
by
Cicero
First published in 1465
129 editions
in
8 languages
— 17 previewable
Émile
by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
First published in 1762
114 editions
in
3 languages
— 22 previewable
Sesame and lilies
by
John Ruskin
First published in 1800
105 editions
in
2 languages
— 20 previewable
Utilitarianism
by
John Stuart Mill
First published in 1863
97 editions
in
7 languages
— 24 previewable
Essays
by
G. K. Chesterton
First published in 1901
93 editions
in
2 languages
— 22 previewable
The rambler: in four volumes.
by
Samuel Johnson LL.D.
First published in 1750
91 editions
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1 language
— 5 previewable
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Jesus Christ
56
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38
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29
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27
Plato
25
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19
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René Descartes (1596-1650)
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Shi Su (1037-1101)
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)
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Andrés Bello (1781-1865)
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
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Adam Smith (1723-1790)
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5
David Hume (1711-1776)
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1,200
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1,194
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1,183
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1,088
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3
Newari
3
Romani
3
Sindhi
3
Sinhalese
3
Tibetan
3
Zulu
3
Assamese
2
Bosnian
2
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
2
Georgian
2
Kazakh
2
Kurdish
2
Māori
2
Uyghur
2
Uzbek
2
Albanian
1
Asturian
1
Azerbaijani
1
Braj
1
Cornish
1
Dogri
1
Dravidian (Other)
1
Esperanto
1
Ethiopic
1
Frisian
1
French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
1
Galician
1
Hausa
1
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