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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 |
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 |