Literary Collections

Ce roman de "moeurs antiques" (sous-titre de l'ouvrage), dont le th??tre est Alexandrie, conte l'histoire de la courtisane Chrysis, et de D?m?trios, un sculpteur. Galil?enne aux longs cheveux d'or (d'o? son surnom grec), Chrysis, fi?re de son art et de...

"Along in the afternoon we saw the North steamer come along with flags flying and a band playing. If we hadn't been on professional business ourselves we possibly might have enjoyed the exhibition. We should have left Whitestone right away, but the wind...

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual...

The book presents the concept of representative government, the ideal form of government. Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the...

Kandinsky sees the spiritual life of humanity as a pyramid. The artist must lead the layman to the top of this pyramid through the soulful exercise of art. Kandinsky differentiates between the superficial pleasure art inspires and the inner resonance...

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (French: Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'in?galit? parmi les hommes), also commonly known as the "Second Discourse", is a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau first...

Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along...

Because the law forbids merchants from Syracuse to enter Ephesus, elderly Syracusian trader Egeon faces execution when he is discovered in the city. He can only escape by paying a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story to Solinus, Duke of...

Gypsy VersesAuthor: Helen Hay WhitneyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 29, 2013Number of Pages: 82 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1492845450ISBN-13: 9781492845454

Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931) was a French social psychologist and physicist who wrote some popular works on crowd psychology.Author: Gustave Le BonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jun 16, 2014Number of Pages: 96...

This is a concise but comprehensive history of the Boer War fought between the British and native South Africans. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the book: "The war in South Africa has been no exception to the general rule that the origin of...

Konrad Wallenrod is one of Mickiewicz' classic works, and tells the story of a fictitious character in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.Author: Maude Ashurst BiggsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Mar 31,...

The Philosophy of Teaching is a classic pedagogy studies text by Nathaniel Sands. Of the various callings to which the division of labor has caused man specially to devote himself, there is none to be compared for nobility or usefulness with that of the...

Assunse, colla vita ed il sangue materno, l'abito alla metafisica: il desiderio di crescere ambiziosamente in qualche cosa di pi? lo fece accostare al pericolo tedesco di Hegel. Ed ecco che ci appare come un napoletano ubriaco di quelli spiriti: donde...

Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of...

The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers had washed away the...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

Son PhilipAuthor: George Manville FennPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 05, 2013Number of Pages: 74 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1484044088ISBN-13: 9781484044087

El Rey del MarAuthor: Emilio SalgariPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Mar 07, 2013Number of Pages: 98 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1482713020ISBN-13: 9781482713022

CeccardoAuthor: Lorenzo VianiPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 29, 2012Number of Pages: 118 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1480212482ISBN-13: 9781480212480

Featherland How the Birds lived at GreenlawnAuthor: George Manville FennPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 04, 2013Number of Pages: 58 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1484034767ISBN-13: 9781484034767

I cani Forse fra meno di un secolo bisogner? andare a cercare i resti della vecchia Turchia in fondo alle pi? lontane province dell'Asia Minore, come si va a cercare quelli della vecchia Spagna nei villaggi pi? remoti dell'Andalusia. Cos? dice Edmondo De...

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply. He made no remark, but the matter remained in his...

Carlo e CarlaAuthor: Anna Vertua GentilePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jan 06, 2013Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1481920928ISBN-13: 9781481920926

A chapbook collection of over 20 haiku. All the haiku have been previously published in various poetry magazines such as Modern Haiku, Presence, Solitary Plover and others. The chapbook also contains some photos of a poet's visible world.Author: Gary...

Marcia Luconi traz no Segundo Livro da S?rie: Palavras de Amor, mensagens psicografadas de alguns Malandros e Z? Pilintra, este ?cone da espiritualidade brasileira, quem nunca se deparouom aquela imagem gigante nas casa de artigos religiosos, vestido de...

A Compilation of short stories depicting the realities of people living in Nigeria. Follow the overwhelming fortune, hazard and encounter of each character as they attempt to maneuver their situations. Each story has a hidden meaning attached to them...

Es un cuento infantil - juvenil, donde los personajes son animalitos, ?rboles y flores. El simp?tico e ingenioso profe Grillito Manolo, nos habla con un lenguaje sencillo y ameno sobre el amor, la naturaleza, los valores, el colegio, la familia y la...