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Shakespeare at his best – King Lear was written at Shakespeares most prolific period, a time in which he rapidly composed Hamlest, Othello, and Macbeth. I believe, without a moments hesitation, that King Lear is his greatest work, and probably the greatest play ever written. <p> The plot moves quickly with excitement and action. The central themes of the play (among which are abandonment, unconditional love, and self-realization) are some of the most serious and important aspects of...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> In fact, after her fathers death, when Elizabeth had found that his assets were really nil, owing to a succession of bad crops and the cattle-disease spreading so rapidly among the...
| Автор | Strang Mrs |
In The Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck offers brilliant proof that no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved. <p> From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a bees-eye view of the most orderly society on Earth. A classic bee book written in a lively and readable style, The Life of the Bee is reasonably accurate (for a book of its...
| Автор | Морис Метерлинк |
This book contains the history and commentaries necessary to understand the evolution of the Judaic/Christian religion. It also has keys to understanding metaphysics of the ancients that are relative to the modern world. In other words, it contains information that is hard to find – a rare book indeed – and, in general, a great book for historians. <p> This is a great book published in 1915 and written so well that it could have been written today. Mackenzie does a great job in...
| Автор | MacKenzie MacKinnon Donald |
I have read Howards End two or three times and listened to it once on tape and it remains one of my favorite novels. Many people were introduced to it by the film, which, good though it was, does not begin to capture the subtle wisdom Forster put into this book. <p> Howards End can be seen as a quaint period piece about British culture in the early Twentieth Century. On another level, however, its a brilliant exploration of the human soul. In the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, Forster has...
| Автор | Forster E |
Nietzsche is often said to have entered a new period with the publication of Human All Too Human and the book is considerably more positivistic than his earlier writings. It aims at debunking unwarranted assumptions more than at defending a grand interpretation of its own, and it marks the high point of Nietzsches interest in, and applause for, natural science. <p> Nietzsche describes what he means by free spirits in the preface to the second edition of Human All Too Human. Free spirits...
| Автор | Nietzsche Friedrich |
Conrad is my favorite 20th century author, so I am biased. Compare him to Tolstoy and you are on the money. Both lived lives that gave them fodder for their fiction; Tolstoy as a soldier in the Crimean war, an aristocrat facing the turbulence of the political and social upheavals of fin-de-siecle Russia, and Conrad as a mariner and a Polish transplant who carved out a language and a career for himself in England. <p> Nostromo contains some of the most vividly realized characterization,...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> His son says of him: My poor father had gotten to be a confirmed drunkard before I was born, and after he had settled at Shippingsport, my mother would not let him stay about the...
| Автор | Gross Alexander |
The Arabian Nights is a great collection of exotic fantasy stories. There are some magical elements to the stories that make it seem like youre in another place completely while reading it. You will like that. Youll enjoy stories where you can feel like you are getting away or exploring a new place. Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves is a favorite story in the book, right next to how cool it is to see the original Aladdin story too. <p> The tales in The Arabian Nights have been told for...
| Автор | Lang Andrew |
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> ?But if he will have built for me a ship that can make the voyage to far Colchis, and if he will send throughout all Greece the word of my adventuring so that all the heroes who...
| Автор | Padraic Colum |
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> And when the startling discovery was made that the sacred books of the Iranians and Hindoos were written in languages related to the culture languages of Europe, when these...
| Автор | Viktor Rydberg |
The new Royal Cook Book has been prepared to meet the large and ever increasing demand for a guide to wholesome and palatable home cooking. The young housewife will find here complete simple directions for making delicious cakes and other culinary delights. <p> Experienced cooks and those more skilled in the art will find here many of their favorite recipes and in addition helpful suggestions, especially in the matter of saving eggs and other expensive materials. <p> Every recipe...
| Автор | company New |
On the Nature of Things is the only surviving work of the Roman philosopher Lucretius, born in 99 BC. In On the Nature of Things, Lucretius sought to liberate his fellow Romans from their fear of the gods, and their fear of death. <p> Lucretius argued that the gods are not directly involved in life, and therefore there is no need to appease them; he also argued that death is the end of a human beings body and soul, and therefore there is no point in fearing it. An unforgettable...
| Автор | Carus Titus |
In 1905 the troops of the Tsar crushed the Russian revolution of 1905. Although the uprising did force Nicholas II to establish a constitution and a parliament, the Russian revolution of 1917 would change the face of the world. However, the uprising also had the interesting effect of inspiring two of the more interesting utopian novels of the early 20th century. One was Red Star, the socialist utopia on Mars created by the Russian writer Alexander Bogdanov, a Bolshevik and intimate of Lenin. The...
| Автор | London Jack |
A wonderful resource : This book contains stories from a thousand years of Irish history, as drawn from primary sources. <p> Well written and informative. A good collection of original texts from Ireland. Especially useful after reading a good ancient Irish History book. <p> This is a wonderful resource. I have read many books on Irish history, and it is great to be able read about select episodes as written about by people who lived closer to the actual events. The stories are...
| Автор | Joyce P |
The way to happiness and peace – As a pastor I see so many people who are miserable. They are depressed, filled with worry and have so little joy in their lives. This book speaks specifically to those problems. <p> In a nutshell this book says that we are miserable because we are trying to find joy in other people and in other things and everything out there will fail us and let us down. The only thing that provides true happiness, peace and contentment is God. <p> The...
| Автор | Kempis Thomas |
A challenge and a pleasure at the same proportion – To read Marcel Prousts Remembrance of Things Past is a pleasure and a challenge in the same proportion that any brave read can have. Not only is it a hard task, but also a very pleasant one. The book is written in such a way that readers are transported to another time and place, and get to know the characters as if they were old friends of ours. Of course, if it werent like that, not many people would dare to try and read the seven novels that...
| Автор | Proust Marcel |
What Buddhist burst of contemplation led to this great novel written by that technician, W Somerset Maugham? Of all the great books of the 20th century, which one could compare with its raw nerve and sinew? Here are no word games, no playing with the chronology, no obfuscation. With the limpid prose that had become his trademark, Maugham took us by the most direct route into his own private inferno. <p> What in his hero Philip Carey was a clubfoot was for Maugham a painful stammer. What...
| Автор | Уильям Моэм |
This book is a fascinating and in-depth look at Victorian lower class prostitutes and their upper class client base. <p> The anonymous author, a decidedly upper class gentleman apparently went through at least three fortunes which underwrote his obsessive need for paid sex, which lasted from his teenage until his death which seems to have occurred sometime in his 60s or perhaps a bit later. Internal clues are few, and some of what is thought to be known about him is based on the...
| Автор | Anonymous Anonymous |
Marvels Of Scientific Invention is An Intriguing Account In Non-Technical Language Of The Invention Of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarines Mines, Up-To-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, And Many Other Discoveries Of Science in the 19th Century. <p> Contents: Digging With Dynamite, Measuring Electricity, The Fuel Of The Future, Some Valuable Electrical Processes, Machine-Made Cold, Scientific Inventions At Sea, The Gyro-Compass, Torpedoes And Submarine Mines, Gold Recovery, Intense...
| Автор | Corbin Thomas |
Still relevant. The font of late Roman and medieval history : Historians love revision. Its why so few histories of the 19th century endure; new evidence and interpretations render them useless. <p> Why, then, is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire timeless? The author wasnt a post-modernist man trapped in an Enlightenment body; Gibbon had no conception of social history or archeology, his 18th century idea that climate affects morality is long out of date, and his analyses of the...
| Автор | Gibbon Edward |
Everyone is familiar with Around the World in 80 Days and 20,000 Leagues. For some reason, The Mysterious Island is not read as widely. Yet, in my opinion, it is Vernes best and most rewarding novel. <p> I really recommend reading this book. It starts off slowly, and there were times in the middle of the book that I began to get overwhelmed by the complex descriptions that Verne offers about how this band of Civil War escapees manage their life on a strange island. Verne goes into such...
| Автор | Verne Jules |
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis–an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life–including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next...
| Автор | Kafka Franz |
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> Back to the long ago wandered my thoughts: to the moss-grown beech in which I cut my name and that of a little girl with yellow curls, of blessed memory, with the first jack-knife I...
| Автор | Riis Jacob |