Jiahu Books

The Good Soldier Svejk is the abbreviated title of an unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hasek. The novel is set during World War I in Austria-Hungary, a multi-ethnic empire full of...

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is an 1865 novel by Nikolai Leskov. It was originally published in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's magazine Epoch. Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from...

Peter and Alexis is th third and final part of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy. All three novels had considerable success in Western Europe but were received coolly in Russia where the majority of...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. This volume contains the complete...

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

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an...

Plac?wka was the first of four major novels by the Polish writer Boleslaw Prus. The author, writing in a Poland that had been partitioned a century earlier by Russia, Prussia and Austria, sought to...

Thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to Plato, though modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of at least some of these. Plato's writings have been published...

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

Poor Folk is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his...

Portuguese Reader (European): Rosetta Series - 9781784353162Author: VariousPublisher: Jiahu BooksPublication Date: Aug 12, 2023Number of Pages: 229 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Deluge was first published in 1886 and it is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "The Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and...

The Deluge was first published in 1886 and it is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "The Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and...

The Deluge was first published in 1886 and it is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "The Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and...

Part of the Noetic Trilogy dealing with how people can draw different conclusions from the same set of circumstances. In Meteor a man is dragged from the wreckage of a plane with no papers and dies...

Until recently all Roman Catholic masses were celebrated in the traditional liturgical language of Latin. Despite a decision to begin using local vernacular languages being taken over 50 years ago,...

Przedwiosnie was written by the leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Zeromski, and first published in 1925, the year he died. The novel consists of three parts: Szklane Domy (Glass houses),...

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature...

The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name by...

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Notoriously touchy about...

Queen Ortruda is the second of three novels which make up Sologub's "Created Legend" series. It follows Yakov Poltinin who has a secret ambition to accomplishing something on a grand scale, something...

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. It quickly became famous and was influential early in the history of its publication. The play begins in a factory that...

R?da rummet is a novel by August Strindberg that was first published in 1879. A satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. While receiving mixed...

Ressurrei??o is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. It was is first novel and was published in 1872. The author explained that his inspiration for the book came from the...

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

Ruslan and Lyudmila is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The opera is based on the 1820 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin's...

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass is the English title of Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra, a novel by the Polish writer and painter Bruno Schulz, published in 1937. The novel takes the form of a...

Sanin is a novel by the Russian writer Mikhail Artsybashev. It was written at the peak of the various changes in Russian society such as nascent democratic movements, the first democratically-elected...

Janka Kupala (July 7 [O.S. June 25] 1882 - June 28, 1942) - was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich who is considered one of the greatest Belarusian language writers of the 20th century. He...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in...