Reducere. A holiday classic from ``one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history`` (Vanity Fair) First published in 19...
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Reducere. A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw th...
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Reducere. Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of th...
Reducere. "A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative autho...
Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Blac...
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Reducere. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Bo...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovBecause Chekhov s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, fr...
Reducere. Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel--a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenatio...
Reducere. Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection un...
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Reducere. Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - The electrifying collected works of "one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets...
Reducere. ``Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage, `` observed Ja...
Reducere. From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everythin...
Reducere. The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King ...
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Reducere. "The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea." --Henry VI Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmu...
Reducere. When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us t...
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Reducere. A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorp...
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Reducere. Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies, but he s also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Jud...
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Reducere. In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom...
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Reducere. Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out...
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Reducere. DescriptionOft quoted but seldom credited, Charles Dudley Warner's My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal ...
Reducere. DescriptionSet during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follow...
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Reducere. Franklin's Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, bu...
Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...
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Reducere. Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history,...
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Reducere. Translated by Anthony EsolenIllustrations by Gustave Dore A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Int...
Reducere. "The Moonstone is a page-turner, " writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several...
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Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...
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Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both -monumental- (The Boston Globe) and -utterl...
Reducere. This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. ...
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Reducere. Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller, ' and Tess Durbeyfield remains hi...
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Reducere. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen an...
Reducere. Introduction by Laurie R. King The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas HardyOne of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, ...
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Reducere. Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern Englan...
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Reducere. With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the...
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Reducere. Introduction by George Bernard Shaw Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations--until h...
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Reducere. Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, pu...
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Reducere. Introduction by Kaye Gibbons Edited and with notes by Nina Baym Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gi...
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Reducere. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter s...
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Reducere. Introduction by A. S. ByattIllustrations by John TennielIncludes commissioned endnotes Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to ente...
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Reducere. Introduction by A. Walton Litz "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of t...
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Reducere. Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin'...
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Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, ...
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Reducere. G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselv...
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Reducere. Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul f...
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Reducere. With his family s claim to the throne uncertain, Henry seeks to secure his position by turning the country s attention abroad. But when his outnumb...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Jonathan BateEditor: Eric RasmussenSet in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play...
Reducere. Introduction by Arthur C. ClarkeCommentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic"No one would have believed in the last years of...
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Reducere. Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes...
Reducere. Prince Henry of Wales, also known as Prince Harry, is the second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana. After enduring the death of h...
Reducere. El Príncipe Enrique de Gales, también conocido como Príncipe Harry, es el segundo hijo de Carlos, Príncipe de Gales, y la Princesa Diana. Tras sufr...