Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

Translated by Henry Reeve Book One Introduction Special Introduction By Hon.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Translated by Henry Reeve Book Two: Influence Of Democracy On Progress Of Opinion In the United States.

Alexis de Tocqueville

With Notes, by Hon.

Alexis de Tocqueville

1896 PREFACE "C'est tousiours plaisir de veoir les choses escriptes par ceulx qui ont essayé comme il les faut conduire."

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...