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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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DaybreakFriedrich Nietzsche

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Daybreak

Daybreak 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: 1881
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 581 passages · 86,086 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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GenesisMoses

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Genesis

Narratives of beginnings, ancestral families, and covenant, from creation to Joseph in Egypt.

What you will learn

Composition: traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Editions / translations: 2020 · 2022 · 2025
Languages: Hebrew · French · English
Extent: 50 passages · 37,339 words

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Human, All Too Human IIFriedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All Too Human II

Human, All Too Human II 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: 1879-1880; combined edition in 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 769 passages · 82,229 words

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Nicomachean EthicsAristotle

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Nicomachean Ethics

Nicomachean Ethics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 116 passages · 89,657 words

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On BenefitsSeneca

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On Benefits

Seneca examines the art of giving, receiving, and returning a benefit in a society structured by obligation. Intention, gratitude, debt, and freedom distinguish moral exchange from commercial calculation and humiliating power.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 56-64 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 228 passages · 81,267 words

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On CuriosityPlutarch

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On Curiosity

On Curiosity 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: 16 passages · 6,880 words

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Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter

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Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth Carter

Carter’s poems combine devotion, friendship, landscape, moral reflection, and occasions of social life. Odes, verse epistles, and occasional pieces bring classical learning, Christian faith, and female experience into conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: poems composed c. 1738-1776
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 55 passages · 14,925 words

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PoliticsAristotle

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Politics

Politics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: work attested c. 335-323 BCE; earlier layers possible
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 189 passages · 98,973 words

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RepublicPlato

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Republic

The Republic asks what justice is and why it benefits the person who practices it. The inquiry moves through city, education, power, desire, and knowledge before returning to the order of the soul.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 278 passages · 124,617 words

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RhetoricAristotle

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; early core and later revisions disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 882 passages · 64,263 words

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Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses

The Saṃyutta Nikāya groups discourses connected by a theme, figure, or setting. Aggregates, the senses, dependent arising, awakening, and encounters with deities recur in concise series that vary a single question.

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: 1,819 passages · 370,517 words

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Socrates in Plato’s RepublicPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Republic

In the Republic, Plato gives Socrates construction of a city in speech to answer the challenge that injustice pays. The questioner of the opening exchanges also becomes narrator of highly developed educational, political, and metaphysical models.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 278 passages · 124,617 words

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Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas

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Summa Theologiae

An architecture of questions in which objections, sed contra, respondeo and replies remain distinct down to citation level.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 1265-1273; unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 23,323 passages · 2,151,409 words

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Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of WarSun Tzu

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Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War

Sunzi treats war as a problem of intelligence, cost, terrain, command, and configuration. Combat is not glorified: the strategist changes conditions to secure an outcome while limiting duration, destruction, and uncertainty.

What you will learn

Composition: layered composition, Warring States period, 5th-3rd centuries BCE
Editions / translations: 1772 · 1910
Languages: Classical Chinese · English · French
Extent: 13 passages · 10,828 words

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The Bible: New TestamentBiblical traditions

Biblical collection

The Bible: New Testament

The reference scripture of Christianity, the New Testament gathers accounts of Jesus, the growth and debates of early communities, and their hope. Gospels, Acts, letters, and Revelation connect faith in Christ, common life, salvation, and expectation of the Kingdom.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 50-120 CE, depending on the book
Editions / translations: 1880 · 2020 · 2022
Languages: English · French · Latin
Extent: 260 passages · 182,733 words