Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of...

Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and philosophical work by St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the way forward to a citizenship that transcends worldly politics and will last...

Rosemary Woodhouse's life seemed perfect: she and her husband, Guy, had rented a wonderful, spacious apartment in an old building, where they met their charming neighbors, the elderly Castevet couple. After that, Guy's career suddenly took off, with numerous acting offers pouring in, but along with this came strange occurrences: the Castevets' adopted daughter throws herself out of a window,...

Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts: a talent for learning languages and a skill in telling lies. As a boy he meets a foreign commander who adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of adventurous friends. Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, they decide to go in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John...

— Emily Dickinson is one of the most beloved, talented, and frequently quoted American poets. Unfortunately, fame came to her only posthumously. — The poet's creative legacy is truly enormous and includes one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five poems – all of which were discovered in Dickinson's dresser after her death. — This edition includes the best poems of Emily Dickinson – translated...

Pearl divers discover giant salamanders on one of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. It quickly becomes clear that the amphibians are capable of speaking various languages, reading, and reasoning. Soon, industrialists and magnates begin to use the trusting and hardworking creatures in construction projects throughout the world's oceans. The salamander population grows rapidly, and they form...

The Brothers Grimm were the first compilers of a German dictionary, outstanding linguists, and, of course, some of the most famous and widely read fairy tale writers. Over many years of painstaking work, they collected and recorded more than two hundred fairy tales and legends, which are read and reread all over the world. The uniqueness of these tales lies in the fact that they are equally...

Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in...

Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals.

‘A Room of One's Own’ is a famous essay based on lectures Woolf gave at Newnham College and Girton College – two women's colleges at Cambridge University – in October 1928. In it, she addresses all women engaged in literature and recalls her great predecessors – Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot – who were forced to write in the common living room, hide their manuscripts from prying...

The British author Edmund Crispin belongs to the Golden Age of detective fiction, and his works are considered classics of British crime literature. The protagonist of all nine of Crispin's novels is Gervase Fen, an eccentric Oxford professor of English language and literature with a penchant for solving crimes. ‘The Moving Toyshop’ is the third novel featuring Gervase Fen's investigations. The...

The short novel ‘Heart of Darkness’ was first published in 1902 and caused a major upheaval in English-language literature, of which it is still considered a classic, and Francis Ford Coppola's film ‘Apocalypse Now,’ based on it, was and remains one of the most powerful works in the history of world cinema. Young Captain Marlow sails up the Congo River, through the wild African jungle, full of...