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Austens means of poking fun at Gothic horror literature are far from mean-spirited and, as a matter of fact, can be delightfully humorous indeed. Her heroine, Catherine Morland, is by no means the type of heroine to be found in the giant tomes of Radcliffe and her indulgent imitators, as Austen tells her reading audience directly from the very start. Almost attractive on a good day, this unintellectual tomboy has reached her fifteenth year without inspiring a young mans fancy, nor would she be...
| Автор | Джейн Остин |
For two hundred years, a civilized America had cut off all contact with the war-ruined Eastern Hemisphere until such places as Europe and Great Britain had become mere legends. Then Jefferson Turck dared take his U.S. aero-sub across the 30th Longitude West on the mission of a new Columbus, and a fascinating voyage of discovery. <p> First published in 1915, the motivations for this story are obvious. The nations of the western hemisphere have taken an extreme isolationist stance in the...
| Автор | Burroughs Edgar |
Although the recommended age range is 4 to 8, I can speak from our own familys experience that 2 is not to young to start learning from the richness of the prose; neither is 63 to old to be enchanted all over again by the animal characters drawn upon her days living in the pastoral region of Lake Windermere, England. One can picture Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck and friends in the ponds, woods and hedgerows of that gentle region. <p> I had several of the small Beatrix Potter books as...
| Автор | Potter Beatrix |
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly...
| Автор | Джейн Остин |
This is a beautifully-designed new edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles novel, A Study in Scarlet, which marked the very first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. <p> 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> You mustnt...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
One of Londons most popular novels, the plot storyline follows a dog named Buck, who is a four year old 140lb Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepard mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the maelstrom of the Yukon Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life. Buck changes hands a number of times before landing in the kindly hands of John Thornton, a brief respite before the storys final turn. <p> The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named...
| Автор | London Jack |
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life – the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom. <p> This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a...
| Автор | Hesse Herman |
Anne Elliot, heroine of Austens last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasnt an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and shes still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austens...
| Автор | Джейн Остин |
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship?s strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis. <p> 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...
| Автор | Melville Herman |
Psmith in the City marks something of a transition piece for Wodehouse. Here, two of his principle School characters are taken away from the school environment and put into the real world. Psmith is elevated to the principle character quite clearly – a trend which continues in Psmith, journalist, and of course is entirely dominant in the concluding Leave it to Psmith, where Mike is relegated to the background. <p> There is also an element of the autobiographical in this work, for...
| Автор | Пелам Гренвилл Вудхаус |
Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon lives on the Sword World of Gram, but is opposed to the Space Viking raids, on which numerous of the most talented Sword Worlders leave and never return. However, when his bride is killed a half-hour after their wedding, Lucas fits out a Space Viking ship and sets out for revenge. Sickened by the waste of the Space Viking life, he finds himself returning to his older convictions: that it is better to build than destroy. But, he finds that there are many who find...
| Автор | Piper H |
Gives a great picture of what was known in 1914-1916! – This is such an interesting book. These clearly document how many of our first cars were ELECTRIC and HYBRID before gasoline engines were exclusively used. Shows the Baker electric roadster, the Waverly electric, the Borland electric, the Babcock electric roadster, and the Studebaker electric. Includes schematics showing how to build one. <p> Most people today think that electric vehicles are something new…WRONG! There are...
| Автор | Hawkins Nehemiah |
Caesars Commentaries on the Gallic War starts with an account of Gaul and goes on to cover Caesars defeat of first the Helvetians and then the Germans under Ariovistus. The Introduction to this edition of the Latin text, gives background information on the Rome of Caesars time, on Caesar himself and on the composition and relaibility of his commentaries, on Gaul, and on the Roman Army. Useful Notes on the text, Index of names, and a Vocabulary are all included. <p> This book is very well...
| Автор | Caesar Morgenthau Julius |
This work is one that I have found to be entertaining from several reads. This is definately not a sit down and plow through it book, but rather one can pick up and put down as needed. As a whole, I found in interesting from a perspective of much of what we consider normal everyday language these days was only a couple of hundred years ago considered the ebonics of the time. <p> It does very much carry the tone and verbage of the day, fans of Victorian, Edwardian, or Elizabethan period...
| Автор | Grose Francis |
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> Contents: The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade, A Descent Into The Maelström, Von Kempelen And His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, The Black Cat, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Silence?A Fable, The Masque Of The Red Death, The Cask Of Amontillado, The Imp Of The Perverse, The Island Of The Fay, The Assignation, The Pit And The Pendulum, The Premature...
| Автор | Poe Edgar |
Nietzches The Anti-Christ was one of the last books Nietzsche wrote before the onset of his insanity in 1888. Unlike many of Nietzsches other books, which raise tantalizing questions and examine experience from a variety of angles, some of them contradictory, The Anti-Christ is a relatively straightforward presentation of Nietzsches critique of Christianity. Contrary to what many think, Nietzsche did not advocate the general abolition of Christianity. He thought it served the needs of the...
| Автор | Nietzsche Friedrich |
A hundred years ago when I went to school, The ransom of Red Chief was REQUIRED (gag me with a spoon!) reading. <p> I was an avid reading convert from then on. <p> This book is full of great stories (Tobin?s Palm, The Gift Of The Magi, A Cosmopolite In A Café, Between Rounds, The Skylight Room, A Service Of Love, The Coming-Out Of Maggie, Man About Town, The Cop And The Anthem, An Adjustment Of Nature, Memoirs Of A Yellow Dog, The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein, Mammon And The...
| Автор | Henry O |
Just after World War One, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money. With jobs thin on the ground they decide to form a partnership, hiring themselves out as ?young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere?. In their first dangerous assignment, they must use all their ingenuity to save not only their lives but also the life of the mysterious ?Jane?. <p> Christie was inspired to write The Secret Adversary after overhearing a conversation in a cafe. Two...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
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> We have laid emphasis upon the delights of literature; we have treated books not as mere instruments of research–which is the danger in most of our studies–but rather as...
| Автор | J H Long |
An important, engaging, shrewd historical treatise – Charles Mackays highly recommended Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds was first published in 1841 and studies the psychology of crowds and mass mania throughout history. <p> Mackay included accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness, and deceptions. Some of these include the Mississippi scheme that swept France in 1720, the South Sea bubble that ruined thousands in England at the same time, and the tulip...
| Автор | Mackay Charles |
We all know Charles Darwin as a scholarly bearded old English gentleman, and like Leonardo da Vinci, Darwin has this image defining him for all future generations. Even though most everyone knows Darwin spent five years traveling the oceans on the HMS Beagle, the image of a young dynamic Darwin never takes over. Reading this book will change this. <p> Darwin sailed on the Beagle, a small three-mast sailing ship, and circumnavigated the globe. Over five years, he visited numerous islands...
| Автор | Darwin Charles |
Ethics is a towering work by an absolute genius, a mathematical definitive explanation of God, the universe and mans place in it. Read it not because you think you must fight through `great philosophy, but for its beautiful symmetry of ground breaking rational thought. I eagerly recommend this work to anyone interested in exploring their thoughts on philosophy, religion and psychology. If anything, Ethics obtains renewed relevance in the post-modern 21st century and its unfolding events. ...
| Автор | Spinoza Benedictus |
Charles Dickenss 1865 novel, his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend is an extraordinarily dark and convoluted work. Featuring such unforgettable figures as Mr. Boffin, Mr. Podsnap, Bradley Headstone, Jenny Wren, and Silas Wegg, Dickens continues, or rather concludes his artistic legacy with a work rich in well written and compelling characters. Exploring, as do many of Dickenss works, the intricacies of inheritance, Our Mutual Friend is also deeply concerned with families and the things...
| Автор | Dickens Charles |
Intriguing math teasers for ages 11 up, brilliantly answered. – This excellent collection of teasers has inferential problems in arithmetic and algebra, and includes geometry, mazes, magic squares and a lot of chess-board tours. The answers are often gems in themselves – things mentioned in passing and left to the reader to establish – e.g. … of the twelve ways that eight queens can be placed on a chessboard without attacking one another… <p> At twelve years old I spent many an...
| Автор | Dudeney Henry |