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Classics
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2000
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."
Moby Dick
Herman Melville · 2003
A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul.nbsp; A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dicknbsp;represents the ultimate human struggle.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1993
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi · 2011
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 2018
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 2003
The Tempest
William Shakespeare · 2006
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 2010
Little Woman
Louisa May Alcott · 2018
Gothic
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 2025
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux · 2016
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Coraline
Neil Gaiman · 2004
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 2000
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2003
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2012
Philosophy
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2008
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1994
<b>Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth.</b> <br><br>One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
The Philosophy of History
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 2020
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel · 2018
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and the social character of human agency itself. A bold new understanding of what, after Hegel, came to be called 'subjectivity' arose from this work, and it was instrumental in the formation of later philosophies, such as existentialism, Marxism, and American pragmatism, each of which reacted to Hegel's radical claims in different ways. This edition offers a new translation, an introduction, and glossaries to assist readers' understanding of this central text, and will be essential for scholars and students of Hegel.
Contemporary Classics
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2015
The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato · 2012
Death In Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2020
The Perfum
Patrick Suskind · 2006
Occultism
The Inferno
Dante · 2002
The Book Of Enoch
Fernando Klein · 2008
The Kybalion
Three Initiates · 2018
<b>The most popular occult work of the twentieth century--now in a hardbound edition that evokes the original volume, with a new introduction by scholar of mysticism Richard Smoley.</b><br><br> For generations, readers have debated the origins and studied the knowledge of this mysterious exploration of Hermetic wisdom, attributed to "Three Initiates." <br><br>Now in its second century, <i>The Kybalion</i> is restored to hardcover in a commemorative volume that evokes the appearance of the occult landmark's first edition.<br><br> The new introduction by Richard Smoley, a celebrated scholar of mystical traditions, makes this a historical keepsake.
Mythology
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés Phd · 1992
Witch trials
Six Women of Salem
Marilynne K. Roach · 2013
Poetry
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey · 2020
Spirituality
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1992
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma · 1999
<p>Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace <p> This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, <i>The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari</i> tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to: <p><ul><li> Develop Joyful Thoughts, <p><li> Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling, <p><li> Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously, <p><li> Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity, <p><li> Nourish Our Relationships, and <p><li> Live Fully, One Day at a Time.</ul>
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne · 2008
Feeling Is The Secret
Neville Goddard · 2012
The Power of Awareness
Neville · 2012
Psychology
Women Who Love Too Much
Robin Norwood · 1988
