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Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The plot of the novel is based on the an ordinary Russian adolescent in the 19th...

Nj?ls saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders. The most prominent characters are the friends Nj?ll orgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnarr H?mundarson, a formidable warrior. In the course of a...

Canig? ?s un poema ?pic de 1886 escrit per Jacint Verdaguer que constitueix un dels poemes clau de la Renaixen?a catalana. Aquest poema, que ?s un llibre, cont? una descripci? geogr?fica dels...

Mar?a Rosal?a Rita de Castro (1837 - 1885), was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.Writing in the Galician language, after the S?culos Escuros, she became an important figure of the Galician...

Discover the rich history and vibrant culture of Catalonia through this bilingual, fully-glossed reader in modern Catalan. Take a captivating language-learning journey with this comprehensive volume,...

Chaim Nahman Bialik (1873 - 1934) was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry and came to be recognized as Israel's...

This volume contains Chekhov's very earliest published short stories. The Chekhov represented here is by no means the confident, near-perfect craftsman who produced some of humanity's best short...

This volume contains translations of Chekhov's very earliest published short stories. The Chekhov represented here is by no means the confident, near-perfect craftsman who produced some of humanity's...

This volume contains translations of Chekhov's very earliest published short stories. The Chekhov represented here is by no means the confident, near-perfect craftsman who produced some of humanity's...

The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. The play concerns...

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in November 1852. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published...

The Peasants is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. In The Peasants, Reymont created a more complete and suggestive picture of...

The Peasants is a novel written by Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. In The Peasants, Reymont created a more complete and suggestive picture of...

The original Ukrainian text of the first UKrainian novel "Chorna Rada" (Black Raid) which tells the story of a series of Cossacks raids on a series of Ukrainian towns in 1663.Author: Panteleimon...

The Classic of Poetry is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally said to have...

Aristophanes (c. 446 BC - c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 30 plays survive virtually complete. These, together with...

This book is a copy of the Cuneiform inscription from the stele in the Louvre Museum in Paris.The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to...

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is an undoubted star of world literature. This current collected gathers his very earliest published work to offer a glimpse into his formative years.Author: Anton...

Anton Chekhov found fame as a leading playwright and short story writer. This volume collects four of his shorter, more light-hearted works, which offer a new perspective on Chekhov's output.Author:...

Discover the rich history and vibrant culture of Denmark through this bilingual, fully-glossed reader in modern Danish. Take a captivating language-learning journey with this comprehensive volume,...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now...

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and...

De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a 1st-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem,...

The League of Youth is a play by Henrik Ibsen finished in early May 1869. It was Ibsen's first play in colloquial prose and marks a turning point in his style towards realism and away from verse. It...

The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate is a novel by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, first published in 1895 as the first instalment of "The Christ and Antichrist" trilogy. Exploring the theme of the 'two...

Den siste atenaren, Viktor Rydberg's most ambitious novel, was published in 1859. It also turned out to be his last for 30 years. This, his best-known novel, offers a contrast between Rydberg's...

During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidk?ping, a sergeant named Albert falls in love with the glazier's daughter Sara Videbeck.But Sara insists that they live in an egalitarian marriage...

The Diary of a Superfluous Man is an 1850 novella by Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man who has a few days left to live as he recounts incidents of his...

Die Verwandlung, Metamorphosis, is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and...

Jan Francois Elias Celliers, almost universally known as Jan F.E. Celliers (12 January 1865 - 1 June 1940) was an Afrikaans-language poet, essayist, dramatist and reviewer.Celliers was one of the...