Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Selections) / Also sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books) by Stanley Appelbaum $12.95
The most popular of Nietzsche's works. A symphony of language, it abounds in every kind of wordplay and an intricate network of leitmotifs. This dual-language edition features one third of Nietzsche's work, keeping the most famous concepts intact and encompassing a variety of moods and modes as well as the author's full linguistic scope.
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Classic Books Publishing $24.90
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating...
Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (Oxford World's Classics) by Christopher Fry $11.95
'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late...
Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) by Cambridge University Press $48.00
Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The...
The Collected Works of 46 Books by St. Augustine (With Active Table of Contents) by Philip Schaff $2.99
This Collection of the Saint Augustine's profound wisdom contains the following books:The Soliloquies of St. Augustine. With notes and introduction by the translator.THE THREE BOOKS OF AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO, IN ANSWER TO THE LETTERS OF PETILIAN, THE DONATISTTHE Complete Twenty Two Books of the CITY OF GOD, With Introduction by Reverend Marcus DodsThe Complete Thirteen Books of the Confessions...
Candide (Modern Library) by Rockwell Kent $23.95
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is “the best of all possible worlds.” The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged,...
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex by Bantam $5.50
The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne’s story, however. This book...
Letters to a Young Poet by BN Publishing $4.99
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. III by Wildside Press $32.95
Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers and so many sequels, all but invented the action adventure novel, and certainly he has few peers in all the years since. His stories are thrilling works of derring-do, foul deeds, close escapes, and glorious victories. In this third volume of his Celebrated Crimes, Dumas tells the tale of Mary Queen of Scots, a woman who suffered a violent death,...
Cuentos antiguos (Spanish Edition) by
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