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- Public-Domain Literary Texts: The underlying historical works featured in our reading room—specifically Samuel Moore’s 1888 English translation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s The Communist Manifesto, Dr. Lionel Giles’s 1910 translation of Sun Tzŭ’s The Art of War, and Ömer Seyfettin’s 1918 Turkish short story Velinimet—are in the public domain worldwide. You are free to read, quote, and study these historical texts without restriction.
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