Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult...
Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to...
"[Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target... Nothing is spared. "--People Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book is ostensibly a work of Science Fiction. It deals with an underground race of advanced beings, masters of Vril energy - a strange power that can both heal...
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One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also won...
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p In the fiction SHIKARAS IN THE RAIN, Cyril Mukalel uses characters' similarities in spite of thei...
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"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon. " Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 188, Editura: Quick Time Press, ISBN-13: 9781946774743, Data emiterii: 2019...
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Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 368, Editura: Vintage Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781984899460, Data emiterii: 2020...
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The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to...
Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero...
A repackaged edition of the revered author's essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical. C. S. Lewis--the great British...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 192, Editura: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781975318758, Data emiterii: 2020...
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The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft collects the great horror author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection...
By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life. Paradoxically, this elevates him above the common man, who avoids the reality of death and the...
The timeless collection that introduced Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horseman Perhaps the marker of a true mythos is when the stories themselves overshadow their...
Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O. Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful,...
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The Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford! Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America's most popular authors, drew...
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This tragic novel of sin and redemption is Hawthorne's masterpiece of American fiction. An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging vengeful husband--these are the central...
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Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant...
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Four prized selections by one of America's greatest writers: "The Open Boat, " based on a harrowing incident in the author's life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger;...
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This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early...
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Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral...
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Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom... and his gold. Silas hoards a...
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Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever...
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