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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents

Letters, speeches, proclamations, and notes follow Lincoln from Illinois politics through the Civil War. They show his language of Union, slavery, emancipation, executive power, and reconciliation taking shape under pressure.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1865
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 982 passages · 326,103 words

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AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

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An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The Essay examines the origin and composition of ideas, personal identity, and the limits of knowledge.

What you will learn

Composition: 1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 1,114 passages · 257,071 words

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses

The Aṅguttara Nikāya arranges teachings attributed to the Buddha in ascending numbered sets, from one item to eleven. Its mnemonic structure brings together conduct, mental training, communal life, and stages of awakening.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French · Pali
Extent: 1,408 passages · 443,916 words

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Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 302 passages · 62,008 words

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Catilinarian OrationsCicero

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Catilinarian Orations

Delivered during Catiline’s conspiracy, these four speeches accuse, mobilize, and justify the actions of the consul Cicero. They show eloquence turning a political threat into a public narrative of the Republic’s rescue.

What you will learn

Composition: 63 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 115 passages · 22,400 words

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Cato the YoungerPlutarch

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Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 318 passages · 25,464 words

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Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses

The Dīgha Nikāya contains extended teachings in which the Buddha and his interlocutors examine ritual, rival doctrines, ethics, meditation, and human destiny. Several narratives also portray the Buddhist community and preserve memories of the teacher’s final days.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · Pali · French
Extent: 34 passages · 188,836 words

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Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche

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Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1888, authorized manuscript
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 73 passages · 31,881 words

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the LawsPlato

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws

The Epinomis returns to the wisdom required by a legislator and directs it toward number, astronomy, and worship of the stars. Transmitted as a sequel to the Laws, it has an ancient but strongly disputed attribution to Plato.

What you will learn

Composition: after 347, c. 347-330 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 9,251 words

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Human, All Too Human IFriedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All Too Human I

Human, All Too Human I must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1878
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 656 passages · 90,609 words

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu

In letters to Elizabeth Montagu, Carter combines friendship, social observation, and literary life. Publications, travel, bereavement, and networks of sociability show two women negotiating intellectual authority, reputation, and mutual support.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1758-1805
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 232 passages · 227,104 words

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Letters to AtticusCicero

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Letters to Atticus

In letters to Atticus, Cicero shares calculations, fears, and reversals with his closest political confidant. The correspondence preserves a voice less polished than the speeches, caught within the crises of the late Republic.

What you will learn

Composition: 68-44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,479 passages · 211,714 words

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Letters to FriendsCicero

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Letters to Friends

The Letters to Friends gather Cicero’s exchanges with magistrates, allies, relatives, and protégés. Recommendations, intelligence, and political appeals reveal the Republic as a fabric of personal obligations, negotiation, and fragile loyalties.

What you will learn

Composition: 62-43 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,342 passages · 225,910 words

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Letters to QuintusCicero

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Letters to Quintus

Cicero writes to his brother Quintus about provincial government, family ambitions, and the storms of Roman politics. Fraternal affection does not erase stern advice or disagreements about authority, reputation, and prudence.

What you will learn

Composition: 60-54 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 198 passages · 60,446 words

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Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses

The Majjhima Nikāya tests Buddhist teaching in concrete encounters: debates with ascetics, counsel to disciples, analyses of experience, and meditation instructions. Its variety moves from dramatic dialogue to methodical examination of mind.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French · Pali
Extent: 152 passages · 312,220 words