Universal Classics

Reducere. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other place...

Reducere. Hailed by Henry James as ``the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, `` Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reache...

Reducere. First printed in 1476, this collection of stories, or "little flowers, " chronicles Saint Francis of Assisi's journeys, activities, and miracles. T...

Reducere. Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid...

Reducere. This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in L...

Odata cu traducerile sale in daneza, engleza, franceza, germana, italiana, maghiara, poloneza, slovaca, spaniola, suedeza si turca - acum si in rom...

Reducere. This is an English translation of Guru Nanak's famous Sri Japji Sahib which was originally written in Gurmukhi script. This is rightly regarded as ...

The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious li...

Reducere. Join a little bear and his mother in this gentle celebration of the universal love between a mother and child from Margaret Wise Brown, best-sellin...

Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton's enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the...

DescriptionJoshua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14, and for the next 35 years he sailed the w...

Reducere. I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of TyndareusMy father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and cri...

Humour is a universal feature of human life. It has been discovered in every known human culture, and thinkers have discussed it for over two thous...

Reducere. Inspired by scripture and many years of Bible study, scholar Andrew Jukes details the scriptural passages that support the idea that all mankind - ...

The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of ...

Professor of Classics at Harvard and Dylan authority Richard F. Thomas attempts to grasp the enigmatic and universal appeal of the Nobel Prize for ...

Impressionistic and bold, the nine stories in this collection frame the middle period of Chekhov's career. Exploring both complicated and intense e...

DescriptionFor the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two...

DescriptionThought-provoking, comforting and wise, the simple truths of The Prophet remain compelling and rewarding to this day.Part of the Macmill...

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Reducere. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of th...

Reducere. Mentioned by Pope Francis as a writer whom everyone should read, Robert Hugh Benson, author of Lord of the World, shares his spiritual journey from...

Reducere. DescriptionInventive, empathetic, and strange in all the best ways, The Spinner of Dreams draws from the author's own experiences to create a story...

Reducere. A giant in the field of illustration and children's books, Howard Pyle (1853-1911) published some 3, 300 illustrations during his thirty-five-year ...

Reducere. These six classic tales of ghosts and hauntings, culled from Fantasmagoriana (1818), a German book that reputedly helped inspire Mary Shelley to pe...

Reducere. David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history....

Reducere. A Korean Charlotte's Web More than 2 million copies sold This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collec...

Reducere. Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their ...

Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormh...

Reducere. An engaging introduction to the Greek and Roman classics from Aphrodite to Zeus. Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for thousands of y...

Reducere. Side A: 1. Rehearsal Room2. Intro - Somebody (Aerosmith's eponymous major label debut in) 3. Reefer Head Woman (Featured on 'night in the ruts' 197...

Reducere. Rational Zen consists of selection from Dogen's two masterworks, Shobogenzo (the famed "Treasury of Eyes of True Teaching, " Japan's most sophistic...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypa...

Reducere. Description"Great tidbits or obscure, entertaining facts can be found on any given page." --Library Journal For thousands of years, board games hav...

Reducere. Description"Great tidbits or obscure, entertaining facts can be found on any given page." --Library Journal For thousands of years, board games hav...

Reducere. After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptolog...

DescriptionUnleash the BeastsOver 400 of fantasy's fiercest foes burst from the pages of this enormous compendium of the most popular and commonly ...

Most horror film fans are familiar with the classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks - all of which have been celebrat...