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The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but, most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded...
2) Early Autumn
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Excerpt: "There was a ball in the old Pentland house because for the first time in nearly forty years there was a young girl in the family to be introduced to the polite world of Boston and to the elect who had been asked to come on from New York and Philadelphia. So the old house was all bedizened with lanterns and bunches of late spring flowers, and in the bare, white-painted, dignified hallway a negro band, hidden discreetly by flowers, sat making...
3) Jane Eyre
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"Una de las grandes novelas de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra de la literatura victoriana. Jane Eyre es una novela clásica de amor, precursora
del feminismo y la psicología moderna, sobre una huérfana que enfrenta su destino mani - festo gracias a su inteligencia e integridad inquebrantables. Controvertida y revolucionaria en el momento de su publicación, Jane Eyre es, al mismo tiempo, una crítica punzante a una sociedad rancia y un himno...
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The Green Hat is a novel written by Michael Arlen, first published in 1924. It is a work that gained significant attention during the Jazz Age and is notable for its portrayal of a glamorous and decadent world. The novel was adapted into a film in 1928, starring Greta Garbo. The film, titled "A Woman of Affairs," had to tone down some of the more scandalous elements of the novel due to the censorship standards of the time. In summary, "The Green Hat"...
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Excerpt: ""I can't understand what it all means. The whole thing is a mystery-a great mystery! I have my suspicions-grave suspicions!" declared the pretty blue-eyed girl emphatically. "Of what?" asked the young man strolling at her side along the sunny towing-path beside the Thames between Kew and Richmond. "Well-I hardly know," was her hesitating response. "But I don't like auntie to remain in that house any longer, Gerald. Some evil lurks there;...
6) The Iliad
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The Iliad, by Homer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical,...
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Excerpt: "Where are you going, Philippa?" Mrs. Jackman asked sharply as Flip turned away from the group of tourists standing about in the cold hall of the Chateau of Chillon "I'm going for a walk," Flip said Her father put his hand on her shoulder. "I'd rather you stayed with us, Flip." She looked up at him, her eyes bright with pleading. "Please, father!" she whispered. Then she turned and ran out of the chateau, away from the dark, prisoning stones,...
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Original y bella colección de diez relatos escritos por Franz Kafka y reunidos en el presente volumen por su gran biógrafo Reiner Stach.
Los protagonistas de estos cuentos fantásticos provienen del mundo animal. Son criaturas con una identidad no siempre inequívoca, que actúan de manera misteriosa, a menudo reflexionando con intensidad, hablando incluso como seres humanos, sin serlo. Se manifiestan en su máxima y más bella expresión el genio,...
9) Hazard
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Auszug: "Ein köstlicher Septembertag! – Der Himmel spannt sich weit und fleckenlos über die Ebene in einem wunderlichen Farbengemisch von Grau und Blau, welches trotz seiner Klarheit aussieht, als zittere ein ganz feiner Dunstschleier darüber hin. Nach dem Horizonte zu färbt sich derselbe gelblich. – Über den Stoppelfeldern schwirren die Lerchen und Staare, schwankt hie und da noch eine nachgewachsene Kornblume wie ein treues Sternchen, welches...
10) Just Duffy
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Introduced by Margery Palmer McCulloch. In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confession of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, appalled at the moral squalor around him, Duffy declares war on society. Ridiculous, yet horrifying at the same time, his campaign builds to a terrifying conclusion. Beset with ambiguity, Duffy is a ferocious indictment of Calvinistic...
11) The Veiled Man
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"The Veiled Man" is a close account of robber-sheik Ahamadou's adventures through the sands of the Sahara Desert. These amazing exploits and adventures will thrill and shock you. Excerpt: "I am a Veiled Man. Openly, I confess myself a vagabond and a brigand. Living here, in the heart of the Great Desert, six moons march from Algiers, and a thousand miles beyond the French outposts, theft is, with my nomadic tribe, their natural industry…"
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This heartbreaking story of two Acadian lovers separated during the expulsion of the French settlers from Nova Scotia has become one of the most enduring, endearing, and popular poems in American literature. In this edition, the story is enhanced by the new insightful foreword by Henri-Dominique Paratte.
Longfellow's epic marks a stylistic shift from reflective lyrics and ballads to a longer tale in verse. The English edition contains sixty-one...
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Edited and introduced by P.H. Scott & Ian Gordon.
Galts two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of political self-seekings. Its hero is a Scot, newly returned from India, who purchases a seat in a rotten borough. As a study of the corruption of the pre-reform...
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Bill is out of options. Unemployed, alone and returning to the raucous seas of Northern California, the only home he knows, he takes a loan out at the bank and pours his last cent into his final chance for redemption: a tired old boat without a name. Although "pitted with rust" with "the cancer of salt corrosion gnawing at the copper engine parts" Bill purchases the WWII craft, warts and all, hoping he can eventually turn her into a solid charter....
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"Ja, Paul – Paul war in diesem Fall nur ein Sammelname. Er hieß gar nicht Paul – er war es nur. Es gibt eine bestimmte Art von Erlebnis, das ich Paul nenne, aus dankbarer Erinnerung an seinen ersten Vertreter."
Sie kennt sie alle, die verschiedenen Typen männlicher Liebhaber: den Retter, der immer gut und aufrichtig ist (aber deswegen schwer zu ertragen), die Begleitdogge (immer elegant, immer tip top) oder den Fremden, der den großen Reiz...
16) The Red Room
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Excerpt: "The fifteenth of January, 1907, fell on a Tuesday. I have good cause to remember it. In this narrative of startling fact there is little that concerns myself. It is mostly of the doings of others-strange doings though they were, and stranger still, perhaps, that I should be their chronicler. On that Tuesday morning, just after eleven o'clock, I was busy taking down the engine of one of the cars at my garage in the High Road, Chiswick. Dick,...
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These stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which were originally published, each one separately, between the years of 1891 and 1892, in the British newspaper The Strand Magazine and later compiled under the title of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, constitute the largest theme of his work and represent the cornerstone of detective stories.
In The Best Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, this detective and his assistant, Dr. John H. Watson, will face...
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Theodor Fontanes Roman "Effi Briest"ist weit mehr als "das gültige, bleibende Dokument einer Gesellschaft, eines Zeitalters" (Heinrich Mann). Es ist der über seine Zeit hinaus gültige Versuch, den Weg eines Menschen verstehend nachzuzeichnen, der ins Unglück führt. Fontane gelingt dies ohne Pathos und Anklage, aber mit liebenswürdiger Ironie, in trefflichen Dialogen und mit Anteilnahme an den Personen - auch an denen, die versagen.
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Excerpt: ""Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord."-Proverbs xviii, 22. "Have those urgent dispatches come in from Berlin, Deedes?" "Captain Hammerton has not yet arrived," I answered. "Eleven o'clock! Tut, tut! Every moment's delay means greater risk," and the Earl of Warnham, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, strode up and down his private room, with his hat still on, impatiently...
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Excerpt: "There was, and (by the grace of God) there still is, a lovely woman whom it once pleased a young man to call Shelmerdene, because, he said, though it is not her real name, it becomes her better than any real name could. And about Shelmerdene books have been written and for her men have died, which just shows you the sort of woman she was. Now it happened one day that Shelmerdene returned to England after a long absence abroad in Persia,...
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