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We owe 1902s The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyles good friend Fletcher Bobbles Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious...
| Автор | Doyle Sir |
Volume One of a new five-volume edition of Poes works, based on the Raven edition of 1903. It includes three articles about Edgar Allan Poe and the tales The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaal, The Gold-Bug, Four Beasts in One – the Homo-Cameleopard, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The Balloon-Hoax, Ms. Found in a Bottle and The Oval Portrait. <p> This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published...
| Автор | Poe Edgar |
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication. <p> The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical...
| Автор | Dostoyevsky Fyodor |
The purpose of the compilers of this volume is:? <p> First, to provide some new material in poetry and eloquence that has never before appeared in books of this character, in addition to many standard selections familiar to the general public; <p> Second, to furnish selections that will stand the test of literary criticism and at the same time prove to be popular and successful for public entertainment; <p> Third, to offer for the use of classes in public speaking such...
| Автор | Fulton Robert |
A Must and a Classic: This book gives you something other books on Norse mythology do not. This volume contains the most dramatic and compelling retelling of Ragnarok you will ever find. <p> In this book, the myths are partly stories and partly explanations of what stories and their characters mean. So it does not feel that you are actually reading tales. <p> Also, I thought that too much was made of similarities between Greek and Northern mythology at the end of this book. Some...
| Автор | Guerber H |
Ive long been a fan of Errol Flynn swashbucklers and the classic works of prolific (and unjustly forgotten) Rafael Sabatini, but if you want the greatest swashbuckler novel of them all, Anthony Hopes The Prisoner of Zenda is a classic youll come back to again and again: over a hundred years after being written, its still as sharp as a rapier point. <p> The Prisoner of Zenda is something of a rarity: a Victorian adventure novel that is as fresh and entertaining to read in this modern...
| Автор | Hope Anthony |
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> (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A...
| Автор | Lewis Carroll |
Dark allegory describes the narrators journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrads finest, most enigmatic story. <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,...
| Автор | Conrad Joseph |
The original Phantom : Before the Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical, there was Gaston Lerouxs original novel The Phantom of the Opera. If you have never seen the production stage, and know only a few things of the story, then…when you reach the middle of the narrative you will be surprised because it is totally different from what you will expect. And it is a great surprise. <p> More than a love story, The Phantom of the Opera is a gothic tale of obsession –leading to madness. The Paris...
| Автор | Leroux Gaston |
Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893), if Bel-Ami is any indication, must rank as one of the best writers in the history of the western world. Born in Normandy in 1850, Maupassant became a disciple of the French author Flaubert early in life. Guy quit his job with the civil service after publishing his first short story, Boule de Suif in 1880. What followed was a phenomenal flurry of 250 short stories and six novels before his premature death from syphilis in 1893. During his short life, Maupassant...
| Автор | Maupassant Guy |
More with the Mad Genius.........Quick read? I finished Crime and Punishment and thought Id zip through Notes like a snack before going on to the Brothers Karamozov. Quick read? Think again. <p> Imagine being locked in a very small room with a verbose, insane, brilliant, jaded, before-his-times, clerk-come-philosopher....with a wicked sense of humor, and a toothache thats lasted a month. Pleasant company....are you searching for the door yet? <p> For the first hour, hes going to...
| Автор | Dostoyevsky Fyodor |
One of the most entertaining novels ever. This Dickens book is up there with Great Expectations and David Copperfield as one of his most enjoyable novels. <p> The social axe that Dickens had to grind in this story is mans injustice to children. Modern readers my feel that his depiction of Dotheboys Academy is too melodramatic. Alas, unfortunately, it was all too real. Charles Dickens helped create a world where we cant believe that such things happen. Dickens even tells us in an...
| Автор | Dickens Charles |
LE MORTRE DARTHUR (The Death of Arthur) was written by Sir Thomas Malory while he was imprisoned for some number of years. It was one of the very first times that the Arthurian legend was penned in English. There were some older Latin fragments of the myth floating around, but its thru Malorys account by which we know the stories most thoroughly. The most successful movie adaptation of the legend, EXCALIBUR, is based on elements taken from Malorys epic. <p> This is an ABSOLUTE must-read...
| Автор | Malory Sir |
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> For many months back, and, in fact, down to this very minute, it had been pretty confidently believed that the young man was somewhere in the wilds of Australia; no one had quite...
| Автор | Hornung E |
As well as being a great historian Plutarch was a philosopher who used the examples of good and infamous men alike to reinforce his conception of morality and what the best in a man can truly be. <p> Unlike other classical historians, he doesnt just accept stories about individuals at face value but always mentions conflicting facts in the historical record. He often digresses in mid narrative, but never to the readers frustration, as it is always with an eye to the social practices and...
| Автор | Plutarch Plutarch |
Do you want to learn about Modern Physics? Begin here! <p> Relativity: The Special and the General Theory is a clear explanation that anyone Can Understand <p> There is no doubt that Albert Einstein has been one of the most brilliant minds of the past century. His major contribution to science was the special and the general theory of relativity, which gave a new dimension to that we call today Modern Physics. <p> Many people feel frustrated because when they try to...
| Автор | Einstein Albert |
If you are a Renaissance Faire enthusiast, this is a must have book; page after page of accurate historical data from the early Middle Ages through the late Renaissance. Clothes, recipes, architecture, agriculture, economics, weapons and attitudes, its all here; Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period. <p> A wonderful work on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Period, this is a great reference book!
| Автор | Lacroix Paul |
This translation, which incorporates the original vernacular seamlessly into a contemporary translation, is by FAR the finest translation of Chekhovs plays (especially *Uncle Vanya*) I have ever read, or am likely to. As a professor of dramatic literature, I will never again teach Chekhov without assigning my students this fine edition–may it long stay in print. <p> Chekhov had his own unique style in that his plays were usually mere verbal interaction with most significant action...
| Автор | Chekhov Anton |
The famed quote of Give me chastity and continence but not yet is one that is much used. It is great to read these lines within the intended framework of Augustines writing. <p> This is a beautiful book. Augustines gradual turn toward God is glorious. This book beautifully illustrates the human ability for transformation and transcendence. Along with Meister Eckhart and Thomas Aquinas it gives one a good grasp of the early Christian and Catholic theory. As a cynic you could question...
| Автор | Augustine Saint |
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, handed down by hinds and huntsmen, woodchoppers and fisherfolk, men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings are, perhaps, among the most fascinating the Scandinavian countries have to offer. <p> Nor are they only meant to delight the child, though this they cannot fail to do. ?Grown-ups? also, who take pleasure in a good story, well told, will enjoy the original ?Peer Gynt? legend, as it existed...
| Автор | Stroebe Clara |
The Fox and the Crow, The Fox and the Goat, The Fox and the Grapes and The Fox and the Cat. These are short stories that are fun and easy to read. Each story is summarized with a moral that you will have heard of. <p> Your children will love the stories with a moral at the end. They will often relate the morals to heir own life and things they do. They will ask for many of the stories by name and will even tell you the stories in their abbreviated form. Youll be really glad you bought...
| Автор | Aesop Aesop |
One of the Best Books Available on the Civil War : This book will keep you turning the pages from end to end. Despite its bulk you simply cant put the book down, as Grants matter-of-fact description of the events that surrounded him was completely engrossing. <p> Grant was not an extraordinary man or brilliant tactician, his soldiers did not have the same obsession with him that the South held for Lee, he simply saw the war for what it was, a campaign against a rebellion. He looked at...
| Автор | Grant Ulysses |
Pinocchio is one of the most beloved and recognizable of all children stories characters. The story of Pinocchio, written by Carol Collodi and originally published in 1881, has been published, republished, retold, and adapted countless times over the last 130 years. However, most people today are probably primarily familiar with the adaptation (and the depiction) of Pinocchio from Disneys movie. It is nonetheless always instructive and worthwhile to go to the original story because most attempts...
| Автор | Collodi Carlo |
This was the first science fiction book I read as a kid (too many years ago than I care to count) and it stimulated my interest in the genre. Planet of the Damned is classic science fiction and a coming of age story. The hero, Brion, is a young man given his first opportunity to prove his worthiness by trying to save Dis, a horrible planet that seems hell bent on self destruction. Harrisons imagination fills the page with sweeping scenery. It is proof that epic science fiction does not need to...
| Автор | Harrison Harry |