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"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." —Virginia Woolf"What do I think of ‘Middlemarch’? What do I think of glory — except that in a few instances this 'mortal has already put on immortality.' George Eliot was one. The mysteries of human nature surpass the 'mysteries of redemption,' for the infinite we only suppose, while we see the finite." —Emily Dickinson"‘Middlemarch’ is probably the greatest English novel." —Julian Barnes"They've [women] produced the greatest writer in the English language ever, George Eliot, and arguably the third greatest, Jane Austen, and certainly the greatest novel, ‘Middlemarch’..." —Martin AmisBy the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, «Middlemarch» is richer still in character, in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community, and in the great art that enlarges the reader's sympathy and imagination. It is truly, as Virginia Woolf famously remarked, 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'.

This book contains the complete novels of Henry James in the chronological order of their original publication. - Watch and Ward- Roderick Hudson - The American - The Europeans - Confidence - Washington Square - The Portrait of a Lady - The Bostonians - The Princess Casamassima - The Reverberator - The Tragic Muse - The Other House - The Spoils of Poynton - What Maisie Knew - The Awkward Age - The Sacred Fount - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The Golden Bowl - The Outcry - The Ivory Tower - The Sense of the Past

Here you can find ALL the Christmas books and stories written by Dickens.The Christmas Books:[1843] A Christmas Carol[1844] The Chimes[1845] The Cricket on the Hearth[1846] The Battle of Life[1848] The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainThe Christmas Stories:[1850] A Christmas Tree[1851] What Christmas is as we Grow Older[1852] The Poor Relation's Story[1852] The Child's Story[1853] The Schoolboy's Story[1853] Nobody's Story[1854] The Seven Poor Travellers[1855] The Holly-Tree[1856] Wreck of the Golden Mary[1857] The Perils of Certain English Prisoners[1858] Going into Society[1860] A Message From the Sea[1861] Tom Tiddler's Ground[1862] Somebody's Luggage[1863] Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings[1864] Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy[1865] Doctor Marigold[1866] Mugby Junction[1867] No Thoroughfare

This book makes available the complete corpus of 358 fables.Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BCE, who represented his masters in court and negotiations and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. Such fables vividly reveal the strange superstitions of ordinary ancient Greeks, how they treated their pets, how they spoilt their sons and even what they kept in their larders. As these stories became well-known, 'Aesopic' one-liners were widely quoted at drinking-parties, and the collection eventually came to include more satirical tales of alien creatures - apes, camels, lions and elephants - which presumably originate in Libya and Egypt.

«Don Quixote» is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.It follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote.

When Machiavelli’s brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli’s first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyzes the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality. His book provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised.