Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Collins edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognized as the most comprehensive one-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's work available. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde contains his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, all his stories, plays and poems, and a substantial number of his essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. The Importance of Being Earnest, for example, is given in the four-act version,...
2) Varied types
Author
Language
English
Description
This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1908. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the story of Sterne's fictional travel through both countries, particularly France. Sterne made two trips within the continent, in 1762-64 and 1765-66, but the book is not about his errands, but those of parson Yorick's (a character in "Tristram Shandy"). With a less acid and outrageous humor than in his previous work, Sterne anyway mixes the picaresque with an ironic and, frequently, hilarious philosophical irony. Yorick begins by trying to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the United States in the 1830s, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s imagines how individuals at the time experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, this book follows painters, poets, enslaved individuals, farmers, and artisans through various settings. Some, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nat Turner, Thomas Cole, and Edgar Allan Poe, are well-known; others are not. All are creators...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" has since been referred to as one of the most significant books in the history of philosophy. Hume, a Scottish philosopher, claimed that he was attempting to discuss moral issues with a methodical reasoning, and proceeded to do so in this foundational text. Divided into three large sections, Hume begins his work with a discussion of human understanding,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Today, there are over two million members of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's a life-saving fellowship. But who started it, and when? Most people know about the co-founders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who met in 1935 and formally launched AA. But who are the other "key players" in the history of AA? Well, there's Dr. William Silkworth, Bill's doctor at Towns Hospital. And Marty Mann, one of the first women in AA, and the founder of the National Council...
7) Raros
Author
Language
Español
Description
Raros supone el libro B de la Historia del siglo XX. Por él desfilan individuos marginales, extravagantes o alienados que se escapan de la uniformidad imperante. El personaje-narrador, un hombre innominado cuya biografía no cuenta con más méritos que el de dilapidar sin prisas pero sin pausa una herencia familiar, encuentra en estos hombres y mujeres un espejo en el que mirarse y una lección de vida (no siempre positiva).
Un hombre innominado,...
8) Twelve types
Author
Language
English
Description
G. K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining figures. Written by one of the world's master essayists, this collection richly expresses Chesterton's thoughts on Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand, Charles II, Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle, Tolstoy, Savonarola, and Sir Walter Scott. The book is a perfect companion for any literature, politics, or history course...
Author
Series
Language
Français
Description
"La Bête humaine" est un roman captivant d'Émile Zola publié au XIXe siècle. L'histoire suit la vie de Jacques Lantier, un mécanicien de locomotive obsédé par la violence et la mort. Lorsque Jacques tombe amoureux de la femme d'un collègue, sa vie devient de plus en plus chaotique et sombre. Le livre explore la psychologie complexe des personnages, en particulier celle de Jacques, qui est hanté par des pulsions meurtrières qu'il ne peut...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Inhalt:
Leben und Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker
Voran und zuletzt ein Gespräch
Freuden des jungen Werthers
Leiden Werthers des Mannes
Freuden Werthers des Mannes
Zeitgenössische Schmähungen
Goethe und Schiller Xenien
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Dichtung und Wahrheit
Verschiedenes
Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Friedrich Nicolais Leben und sonderbare Meinungen
Geschichte eines dicken Mannes
Vertraute Briefe von Adelheid B. an ihre Freundin...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Kurt Tucholsky kannte Berlin wie seine Westentasche. Er wurde am 9. Januar 1890 in der Lübecker Straße 13 in Moabit geboren und war mit Unterbrechungen bis zu seiner Emigration ein Berliner. Er erkundete schreibend-manchmal mit Augenzwinkern, manchmal mit wütendem Biss-den Berliner Alltag, die Berliner Provinz, die Berliner Gesellschaft wie die Berliner Lebens verhältnisse. Immer hatte der genaue und spöttische Beobachter Tucholsky das Wesentliche...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Mujeres con poder en la historia de España es un ensayo que visibiliza la gran labor de las mujeres en el mundo. A pesar de no permitírseles ocupar ciertos cargos, ellas demostraron ser las adecuadas, las más preparadas, y por ende, las merecedoras de desempeñarlos en sus momentos históricos.
En estas páginas encontramos mujeres lugartenientes, gobernadoras y validas, pero también reinas que fueron reinas de verdad, no esposas de reyes. A lo...
Author
Language
English
Description
Colorful characters once populated the Upper Mississippi River Valley swamps and floodplain forests. These are the river rats, hill folk, and swamp dogs whose stories Kenny Salwey tells so well. Now long gone, these legendary denizens of the river bottoms come alive in Kenny's signature brand of storytelling, rife with insight and laughter, woodslore and a time-tested philosophy of the natural world. With a foreword by regional historian Gary...
Author
Language
Español
Description
A 47 años de su publicación, el lector tiene en sus manos un testimonio irremplazable. Un joven -Luis González de Alba- representante de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras ante el Consejo Nacional de Huelga, recrea la vida en el Palacio Negro de Lecumberri de los presos políticos del movimiento estudiantil de 1968. Al mismo tiempo rememora los acontecimientos y el espíritu de aquel despertar que acabaría por modificar de manera radical el ánimo...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : "Un bel esprit a dépeint, en ces quatre vers, le goût, très passionné, de nos pères pour les spectacles : Il ne fallait au fier Romain Que des spectacles et du pain. Mais au Français, plus que Romain, Le spectacle suffit sans pain."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN :
Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants :
●...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Traidores que cambiaron la Historia es el relato de algunas de las traiciones más célebres de todos los tiempos. Sucesos que, con su comisión, cambiaron el curso de los acontecimientos históricos en un país, un imperio y, a veces, en toda la Tierra.
Empezando por el más famoso de todos los traidores de la tradición occidental, Judas Iscariote, se repasan algunos de los casos más famosos de traición: Efialtés y los 300 espartanos, la muerte...
18) A Modern Utopia
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Modern Utopia is a novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability." To this planet "out beyond...
19) Germinal
Author
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
"Germinal" est un roman célèbre d'Émile Zola publié au XIXe siècle. L'histoire se déroule dans le Nord de la France pendant la Révolution industrielle et suit la vie d'Étienne Lantier, un jeune mineur qui s'oppose à l'exploitation des travailleurs par les propriétaires des mines. Le livre dépeint les conditions de travail éprouvantes des mineurs, ainsi que les tensions entre les travailleurs et les propriétaires des mines. Étienne Lantier...
Author
Language
English
Description
NOT YOUR PROFESSOR'S FOLLY.
In 1925, the celebrated Chicago publisher Pascal Covici brought out an eclectic if unorthodox edition of In Praise of Folly, the classic Renaissance-era essay by philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus. A work of many hands, the limited edition of eleven hundred numbered copies, bound in cloth and boards, and printed on fine paper (Coventry Book), quickly sold out and the edition went out of print. Since then,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request