The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince. The Discourses were published posthumously with papal privilege in 1531. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BCE, although...

The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The original book is now worth $3.4 million.

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont (just north of Brattleboro), in the United States. There is evidence...

Friedrich Engels, llamado a veces en espanol Federico Engels (Barmen-Elberfeld, Prusia; 28 de noviembre de 1820-Londres; 5 de agosto de 1895), fue un filosofo y revolucionario aleman. Amigo y colaborador de Karl Marx, fue coautor con el de obras fundamentales para el nacimiento de los movimientos socialista, comunista y sindical, y dirigente politico de la Primera Internacional y de la Segunda Internacional.

The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Koselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both -The Anti-Christ- and -The Anti-Christian-.

Charles Auguste Milverton, aussi traduit Charles Augustus Milverton (The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton en version originale), est l'une des cinquante-six nouvelles d'Arthur Conan Doyle mettant en scene le detective Sherlock Holmes. Elle est parue pour la premiere fois le 26 mars 1904 dans l'hebdomadaire americain Collier's Weekly, avant d'etre regroupee avec d'autres nouvelles dans le recueil Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes). Dans cette aventure, Sherlock Holmes n'enquete pas sur un mystere a resoudre, et endosse lui-meme le costume du criminel-justicier....