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The mission of the Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF) is to
produce advanced electronic texts for the benefit of students,
scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is
to provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature
available in several languages and/or editions for
all types of readers.
The Library
Our current works online include The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
Dante's Divine Comedy,
Milton's Paradise Lost,
the novels of Jane Austen,
and more. There are 129 works by 20 authors in the library.
Want to know more? See our slideshow about our mission (at 800x600 or
1024x768), or
check out what we have in development.
NEW: Epics and Sagas has opened, with the first work being the Laxdaela Saga.
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The Prince was written in 1513 and published in 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death in 1527. Machiavelli attempted to use his treatise to gain an advisory position with either the Pope or the Duke. He was unsuccessful. The Prince contains advice to a ruler on how best to stay in power. Machiavelli believed that, for monarchs, "the end justifies the means."
We hope you enjoy this presentation!
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