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We do not always look for a work, a text, or a passage in the same way. Browse by work as you would in a traditional library, travel through time, follow a semantic concept, or go straight to a precise excerpt. This Library exists to support practice and deeper study by bringing old texts into contact with daily experience and present questions.

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

A representation is one language version of a canonical passage. Private excerpts come from source files. Sentence count is estimated from punctuation.

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Photorealistic editorial illustration of Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents in the Prokopton42.com Library Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

Work

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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Academica in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Alexander in the Prokopton42.com Library AlexanderPlutarch

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Alexander

Alexander 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
377 passages · 30,354 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Apology of Socrates in the Prokopton42.com Library Apology of SocratesPlato

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Apology of Socrates

Socrates defends himself before an Athenian jury against charges of impiety and corrupting the young. Plato composes a courtroom speech in which philosophical examination, divine mission, and refusal to flatter the audience put an entire life at stake.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
26 passages · 11,771 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Brutus, or On Eminent Orators in the Prokopton42.com Library Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero

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Brutus, or On Eminent Orators

Cicero traces the history of Roman eloquence through the speakers who shaped it. The dialogue combines criticism, portraiture, and an anxious reflection on public speech at a moment when the Republic is losing its freedom.

What you will learn
Composition
46 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
334 passages · 79,995 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Catilinarian Orations in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Cato the Younger in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Critias in the Prokopton42.com Library CritiasPlato

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Critias

Critias tells of ancient Athens and Atlantis, an island power whose initial order decays into desire for domination. The narrative continues the Timaeus but breaks off before the announced war and provides no completed conclusion.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 360-347 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
16 passages · 7,257 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian in the Prokopton42.com Library Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus

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Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian

Arrian transmits Epictetus’ oral teaching as lively exchanges with students. The teacher confronts their ambitions, fears, and inconsistencies with a central demand: govern assent, desire, and action rather than claim command over events.

What you will learn
Composition
teaching recorded by Arrian, c. 108-125 CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
95 passages · 118,661 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the Bible in the Prokopton42.com Library Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter

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Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the Bible

These annotations entered in Carter’s Bible comment on vocabulary, narrative coherence, doctrine, and moral difficulty. Published posthumously and never designed as a continuous book, they preserve traces of religious reading in progress.

What you will learn
Composition
notes composed before 1806; published posthumously in 1807
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · French
Extent
71 passages · 20,893 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws in the Prokopton42.com Library 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
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Eudemian Ethics in the Prokopton42.com Library Eudemian EthicsAristotle

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Eudemian Ethics

Eudemian 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
41 passages · 39,333 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Euthydemus in the Prokopton42.com Library EuthydemusPlato

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Euthydemus

Socrates recounts an encounter in which Euthydemus and Dionysodorus overwhelm a young man with verbal refutations. The dialogue opposes eristic victory to an educational search for knowledge capable of making life flourish.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 390-370 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
37 passages · 17,127 words

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