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The Influence of Sea Power

The Influence of Sea Power by Alfred Thayer Mahan

The Influence of Sea Power by Alfred Thayer Mahan

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discusses the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet. Scholars consider it the single most influential book in naval strategy. – Summary by Wikipedia

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Children in Prison

Children in Prison by Oscar Wilde

Children in Prison by Oscar Wilde

This is a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote about the cruel treatment of children in prisons after a prison guard was dismissed from his post for feeding a starving child.

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Obermann

Obermann by Etienne Pivert de Senancour

Obermann by Etienne Pivert de Senancour

Although it was almost completely ignored by the reading public when it was first published during the period of Napoleonic Wars in 1804, it was rediscovered almost 30 years later by the Romantics, praised by none less than Balzac and George Sand, as well as Franz Liszt and other illustrious persons of that time period.

Obermann is an epistolary novel in the form of a journal intime, in which the inner life of the main character is the most important element, rather than the physical action. The story spans ten years, in which Obermann describes historical events, the progress of philosophical ideas, and, most strikingly, his emotional development.

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