literature | spiritual enlightenment.

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran • 2023

Golden Rose, The

Konstantin Paustovsky • 2003

CONTENTS Precious Dust Inscription On a Rock Artificial Flowers My First Short Story Lightning Characters Revolt The Story of a Novel The Heart Remembers Treasury of Russian Words Vocabulary Notes Incident at "Alshwang Stores" Some Sidelights on Writing Atmosphere and Little Touches "White Nights" Fountain-Head of Art The Night Coach A Book of Biographical Sketches The Art of Perceiving the World In a Lorry A Word to Myself

The Last Question

Isaac Asimov • 2007

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells • 2017

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem • 1973

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain • 2004

The Place of the Skull

Chingiz Atmatov • 1989

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy • 2021

Father and Sons

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev • 2020

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 2009

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe • 1852

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck • 2006

The Wild Ass's Skin

Honore De Balzac • 2010

Light in August

William Faulkner • 1990

From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality.<br/><br/>Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.<br/><br/>“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott • 1950

Eger Stars

Géza Gárdonyi • 2019

And Quiet Flows the Don

Mikhail Sholokhov • 1989

La Pelle

Curzio Malaparte • 1991

How the Steel Was Tempered

Nikolai Ostrovsky • 2023

The Gods Will Have Blood

Anatole France (1912)

Quo Vadis

Henryk Sienkiewicz • 2011

Embers

Sándor Márai • 2001

Agostino

Alberto Moravia · 2014

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector · 2011

The Complete Richard Hannay Stories

John Buchan • 2010

The Cinnamon Shops

Bruno Schulz • 2016

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath • 1966

Hatter's Castle

A.J. Cronin • 1983

Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian • 2009

The Stranger

Albert Camus • 1989

Silk

Alessandro Baricco • 2012

In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan. He strikes a business deal with a local baron and is utterly bewitched by the man's concubine. An unlikely love blossoms between them that is strengthened over time. Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an entrancing tale of erotic possession and how the heart charts its own course.

All the Rivers Run

Nancy Cato • 1984

The Waves

Virginia Woolf • 1978

Dead Poets Society

N.H. Kleinbaum • 2012

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison • 1983

A Grand Master of Science Fiction and the multiple-award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog presents seven stunning stories of speculative fiction. Hugo Award winner I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is living legend Harlan Ellison?s masterpiece of future warfare. In a post-apocalyptic world, four men and one woman are all that remain of the human race, brought to near extinction by an artificial intelligence. Programmed to wage war on behalf of its creators, the AI became self-aware and turned against all humanity. The five survivors are prisoners, kept alive and subjected to brutal torture by the hateful and sadistic machine in an endless cycle of violence. ? Presented here with six more groundbreaking and inventive tales that probe the depths of mortal experience, this collection proves why Ellison has earned the many accolades he?s received and remains one of the most original voices in American literature. ? I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream also includes ?Big Sam Was My Friend,? ?Eyes of Dust,? ?World of the Myth,? ?Lonelyache,? Hugo Award finalist ?Delusion for a Dragon Slayer,? and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist ?Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.? ?

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence

R. F Kuang • 2022

1984

George Orwell • 1983

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Midsummer's Night Dream

William Shakespeare • 1983

Turcaret

Alain­Rene Lesage • 1999

Dark Avenues

Ivan Bunin • 1943

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk • 2019

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br/><br/>WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE<br/><br/>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE<br/><br/>A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)<br/><br/>"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time<br/><br/>"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post<br/><br/>From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.