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Youll laugh and cry: This is truly one of the two best books I have ever read. (The other off course is Little Women). <p> Little men is a book that can make you both laugh and cry. The morals inside are more useful than any of the ten commandments. Louisa May Alcott has definetly done it again. <p> Without giving away everything, these are some of the reasons why you will enjoy the book: <p> 1) You see Jo grow up. She is no longer the wild child whos impetuous and...
| Автор | Alcott Louisa |
Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book–although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States–and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyces cloacal obsession. None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to...
| Автор | James Joyce |
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> This home of hers (from which, to look after your house, she makes occasionally temporary departures in great style, escorting a barrow) is in one of those what-care-I streets that...
| Автор | Barrie J |
The tales in this book (back in print for the first time in who knows how many years) are by turns mystifying, horrifying, intensely moving, funny, incredibly beautiful… and sometimes all of them at once! Algernon Blackwood is mostly remembered as a great writer of ghost stories, but he was SO much more than that – a writer of (mostly) supernatural tales with a truly unique vision. Theres hardly a ghost to be found in this book, but it is chock full of other kinds of weird manifestations that...
| Автор | Wilson Algernon |
This book presents the famous lectures of Governor Robert L. Taylor. His great popularity as an orator and entertainer, and his wide reputation as a humorist, have caused repeated inquiries from all sections of the country for his lectures in book form; and this has given rise to an earlier publication than was expected. <p> The lectures are given without the slightest abridgment, just as delivered from the platform throughout the country. The consecutive chain of each is left...
| Автор | Taylor Pritchett Robert |
Vathek, the ninth Caliph of the Abassides, is a majestic figure, terrible in anger and addicted to the pleasures of the flesh. He is also insatiable for knowledge, inviting scholars to converse with him. If he fails to convince the scholar of his points of view, he attempts a bribe; if this does not work, he sends the scholar to prison. But for all his powers, Vathek wants even more. <p> Renouncing Islam, he engages in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain...
| Автор | Beckford William |
The first thing that will strike you on reading this book will be the timelessness of its subject matter, no matter how dated the setting is. The Ivy League of Fitzgeralds indifferent hero, Amory Blaine, is a thing of the past, with only the faintest reminders of its aura of American royalty remaining today. Reading about Amorys days at Princeton is a bit like looking at the ancient photographs of 19th century football teams that every university seems to have on display in some corner of the...
| Автор | Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд |
Sometimes with the pace of business we dont take the time to review the thoughts and concepts of the great people of the past. When I read this book I was amazed at his level of thinking. We tend to believe that our generation is always coming up with the great thoughts and ideas. If this is your thinking you need to step back 100 years or so to the life and times of Henry Ford. All we are doing is reinventing what he did. <p> It was amazing to read that many of the ideas and ideals...
| Автор | Ford Henry |
Though I first read this book nearly 50 years ago, it still remains one of the best books I have ever read. Adults may feel that it is a kids book, and of course it is perfect for kids, but believe me, it can be enjoyed by people of any age. All you need is love of a good story. <p> For many years Ozma was my heroine–I dreamed that I would meet her somehow, somehow be transported like Dorothy to the Land of Oz. Though these dreams faded, I still often think that this book might be the...
| Автор | Baum Baum L |
Titus Flavius Josephus (37 ? c. 100 CE), also called Joseph ben Matityahu was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century CE and the First Jewish?Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70 CE. <p> His most important works were The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation...
| Автор | Josephus Flavius |
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeares most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers. <p> Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and...
| Автор | Shakespeare William |
Burroughs Best Martian Tale – Conventional wisdom has it that the first three books of Burroughs Martian series, A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars form an excellent trilogy and all the rest of the Martian tales are quite poorly done in comparison. You will disagree. <p> Here are two examples as to why Chessmen is Burroughs best work in this series. <p> [1] You can hardly conceive of a more ghastly creature than a spider-being who lives as a parasite on...
| Автор | Burroughs Edgar |
Entertaining, humorous, intelligent, and full of surprises: Portly, fun loving, witty G.K. Chesterton decided to write this book as a companion volume to his book HERETICS. Since HERETICS had criticised contemporary philosophies, ORTHODOXY was written to present an alternative viewpoint, and is therefore both affirmative in tone and autobiographical in many places. <p> A sampling of his chapter titles gives some idea of Chestertons sense of fun as well as his unusual approach to the...
| Автор | Chesterton G |
Youll love this book. The author has updated palmistry in this very easy to understand book. <p> Taking you step by step trough all the aspects of hand reading. Full of exercises to do really makes you feel that you are picking it up. <p> Its descriptions are fantastic and clear taken from real prints so that you can really understand what you are looking for. Other books have at times left me feeling a bit bewildered, so much to remember and put together. But this book is not...
| Автор | Cheiro Cheiro |
It was a glittering, sumptuous time when hypocrisy was expected, discreet infidelity tolerated, and unconventionality ostracized. <p> That is the Gilded Age, and nobody knew its hypocrises better than Edith Wharton.... and nobody portrayed them as well. The Age of Innocence is a trip back in time to the stuffy upper crust of old New York, taking us through one respectable mans hopeless love affair with a beautiful woman – and the life he isnt brave enough to have. <p> Newland...
| Автор | Wharton Edith |
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> There had all the while been one vacant chair at the table, waiting for somebody that was expected, and now through the kitchen door came hurrying in a not very tall but...
| Автор | Stoddard W |
Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, (February 17, 1836, Seville – December 22, 1870) was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry and short stories, now considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the post-romanticism movement and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known during...
| Автор | Becquer Gustavo |
The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The book was published in 1911 by Rider and Son in the UK, the year before Stokers death, with color illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. In 1925, it was republished in a highly abridged and rewritten form. Over a hundred pages were removed, the rewritten book having only twenty-eight chapters instead of the...
| Автор | Stoker Bram |
The Shackleton story is fascinating, not only for the awesome testament to dogged determination to succeed in the face of seemingly daunting odds that it is. <p> This is a bone chilling visual and literary step by aching step trudge through the most inhospitable place on Earth. As the Endurance, their ship, died so their own endurance was born. And what an endurance that was! <p> As my eyes wander the pages in the warm comfort of bed my mind is wind-whipped by the Antarctic...
| Автор | Shackleton Ernest |
Eigentlich muss Lucas nur eine gemeine Mutprobe bestehen, zu der er herausgefordert wurde. Als ihn jedoch ein seltsamer alter Mann aufhält, gerät er in einen Strudel aus unglaublichen Ereignissen! Der Mann behauptet, ein Magier zu sein, und stellt sich ihm als Schüler Merlins vor. Lucas soll ihm helfen, einen uralten Fluch zu brechen, und muss dafür zurück ins Camelot der Zeit König Artus' reisen. Das klingt viel zu verrückt, um wahr zu sein … Aber was, wenn doch etwas an der Geschichte...
| Автор | Stefan Gemmel |
Recent years have seen a re-examination of the Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration. Roland Huntford in his excellent books The Last Place on Earth and Shackleton helped to debunk the myth of the glorious failure (Scott the Martyr) as an example to follow. <p> The greatest tale of this age was surrounded by no great tales of hardship, no honeyed or sanitised versions of the deed. In this book we hear in the words of the greatest exponent of the art of polar travel, the story of that...
| Автор | Amundsen Roald |
In historical study there are two types of literature. Secondary sources are written based on the original writings which are known as Primary sources. If you want to lern about the earliest Roman Emperors this source is indispensable. True, some of it is not historical and Suetonius is somewhat of a gossip monger at times, seeing as he explains in detail the various sexual appetites of each Caesar as well as other deviant behaviour. Still, this is one of the foremost primary sources about those...
| Автор | Tranquillus Gaius |
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> Colin Estey stretched his well-developed fourteen-year-old body among the tall feathery grasses of the broad salt-marsh whereon he lay, kicking his heels in the September sunshine,...
| Автор | Hornibrook Isabel |
By the Author: In the first chapter of this book I have shown, I believe convincingly, why sex knowledge is even more important for women than it is for men. I have examined carefully the books that have been written for girls and women, and I know that it is not bias, nor carping criticism, but strict honesty that forces me to say that I have not found one satisfactory girls or womans sex book. There are some excellent books for girls and women on general hygiene; but on sex hygiene, on the...
| Автор | M.D William |