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Rev St. John's Burmese Reader is a must for any student looking to progress beyond the basic is this challenging and fascinating language. This abridged version contains the advanced grammar notes,...

Chanting is a key feature of many Buddhist practices, especially in the Theravada tradition in South-East Asia. This volume contains the Pali text of many chants for specific everyday use including...

A Common Story is a debut novel by Ivan Goncharov, written in 1844-1846 and first published in 1847. The novel had an immediate effect upon its readers. Critic Aleksander Skabichevsky remembered:...

A Decayed Family is the unfinished final novel in Leskov's "Stargorod Chronicles." Each novel features a strong female character: virtuous, courageous, noble and reasonably humane.Author: Nikolai...

Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House) is, quite simply, the most performed play in history.It is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen which critically deals with the suffocating norms of a 19th century...

No page of history is more crowded with thrilling interest than that which records the uprising of the Hungarians, in 1848-49, in a gallant attempt to recover their constitutional rights. The events...

A lathatatlan ember is a novel by the Hungarian writer Geza Gardonyi, published in 1901. In the opinion of some people, including Gardonyi himself, it is his best work. The narrator and hero of the...

A Life for the Tsar is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Egor Rozen. It...

A Moreninha é um romance de autoria do escritor brasileiro Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820-1882), publicado em 1844. Essa obra marca o início da ficção do romantismo brasileiro Esse livro faz parte da...

Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent...

The Muqaddimah, also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena was written by the Arab, North African Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of...

Al Quran Al Karim presented in clear, large typeface.Author: Al-QuranPublisher: Jiahu BooksPublication Date: Aug 02, 2013Number of Pages: 306 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch f?r Alle und Keinen (Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None) is a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885...

The short story is a fundamental part of the greatness of American literature. Nearly every author of note has turned their hand to it at some point in their career. This volume contains a broad...

Amphibian Man is a science fiction adventure novel by the Soviet Russian writer Alexander Belyaev, first published in 1928. Argentinian doctor Salvator, a scientist and a maverick surgeon, performs a...

Anabasis is the most famous work, in seven books, of the Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the...

The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts...

Jose Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th...

Jose Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th...

"Asya" - is a novella by Ivan Turgenev which was first published in 1858. The story is told from the viewpoint of an anonymous narrator (Mr. NN), who recalls his youth and in particular his stay in...

Az arany ember, or The Man with the Golden Touch is Mor Jokai's 1872 magnus opus. It is the epic Hungarian novel which brings together the worlds of romance and reality. It has been translated in...

Babicka is a novella written by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova in 1855. It is her most popular work and is regarded as a classic piece of Czech literature. The book describes an idealised account of the...

Bad Dreams, written by Fyodor Sologub in 1895, is considered the first "decadent" novel in Russian literature. It follows Login, a teacher in provincial Russia, tortured by existential angst who...

Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon...

The Bhagavad Gita, The Song of the Bhagavan, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. This scripture contains a conversation between...

The Book of Documents (Shujing) or Classic of History, also known as the Shangshu, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to...

The Book of Rites is a diverse collection of texts of varied but uncertain origin and date, lacking the overall structure found in the other "rites" texts (the Rites of Zhou and the Etiquette and...

Boris Godunov is a play by Alexander Pushkin. It was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. Its subject is the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who...

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his...

"Borislav Is Laughing" is novel by the Ukrainian author Ivan Franko. Together with "Boa-Constrictor" and a number of short stories, it describes the development of the oil industry in the Borislav...