Classics

By Thomas More

'Even if you cannot remove damaging principles or treatment confirmed evils, there isn't any cause to show your again at the physique politic'. In "Utopia", Thomas extra supplies us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island the place the population get pleasure from a social order in response to common cause and justice, and human achievement is open to all. because the tourist, Raphael, describes the island to extra, a sour distinction is drawn among this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the thinker try and reform his society? In his fictional dialogue, extra takes up a question first raised by way of Plato and that's nonetheless a problem within the modern global. within the background of political inspiration few works were extra influential than "Utopia", and few extra misunderstood. Dominic Baker-Smith's advent examines the conflicting voices and views of More's masterpiece and relates them to the eu context of his time. This re-creation additionally incorporates a chronology, notes, appendices, thesaurus and recommended additional analyzing. it truly is translated and brought via Dominic Baker-Smith.

By Kate St. James

By G.Henty

Исследование англоязычного автора о военной авантюре Наполеона Бонапарта в Египте в 1799 году. Описаны все битвы и кампании Наполеона. Текст проиллюстрирован цветными вкладками. Обзорная книга для популяризации истории Великой Французской Революции, первой Империи. Особое внимание в книге уделено описанию морской битвы при Абукире, в которой Нельсон уничтожил французский флот.

By Donald D. Fitts

By Alexandre Dumas

Historias Selecci??n fue una colecci??n m?­tica. Muchos aprendimos a leer con ella: nos acerc?? a los grandes cl??sicos de los angeles literatura common en adaptaciones adornadas con numerosas p??ginas de c??mic. Ahora, ZETA BOLSILLO recupera sus t?­tulos m??s emblem??ticos, en un formato ??nico y no repetido: aventuras apasionantes, peripecias fant??sticas, personajes m?­ticos de todos los tiempos, vivencias rom??nticas. De Julio Verne a los angeles emperatriz Siss?­. Redesc??brelos. / the 3 Musketeers tells the tale of the early adventures of the younger Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his 3 acquaintances from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. less than the watchful eye in their customer M. de Treville, the 4 guard the honor of the regiment opposed to the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the consideration of the queen opposed to the machinations of the Cardinal himself because the strength struggles of seventeenth century France.

By Jerome K. Jerome

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By Leo Lionni

Leo Lionni’s Caldecott Honor–winning tale a couple of little mouse who gathers whatever strange for the lengthy iciness is celebrating its 50th birthday! 
 
Winter is coming, and the entire mice are accumulating nutrition . . . aside from Frederick. but if the times develop brief and the snow starts to fall, it’s Frederick’s tales that hot the hearts and spirits of his fellow box mice. Winner of a 1967 Caldecott Honor, Frederick has been adored through generations of readers.
 
“A most appropriate achievement.” —School Library Journal, starred review
 
“In Frederick, a mouse who's a poet from the end of his nostril to the tip of his tail demonstrates probably purposeless existence is certainly faraway from that—and that we want no longer stay through bread alone!” —Eric Carle

By Hyman P. Minsky (auth.)

By Charles Turley

By Malcolm Lowry

It's the Day of the lifeless. The fiesta in complete swing. within the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged little ones beg cash to shop for skulls made up of chocolate...and the grotesque pariah canines roam the streets. Geoffrey Firmin, HM ex-consul, is drowning himself in liquor and Mescal, whereas his ex-wife and part brother glance on powerless to aid him. because the day wears on, it turns into obvious that Geoffrey needs to die. it's his simply break out from a global he can't comprehend. lower than THE VOLCANO is without doubt one of the century's nice undisputed masterpieces.