War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Republic by Plato

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Progress and Poverty : An Inquiry into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy by Henry George

Collected Works by Mahatma Gandhi

The Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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The Complete Poetry and Prose by John Donne

Poems by William Cullen Bryant

The City of God by St. Augustine

Politics by Aristotle

Holy Bible

Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham

Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Treatises on Civil Government by John Locke

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

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