Overview :"The Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20... Read More
Overview :Sunset Song is a 1932 novel by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels ... Read More
Overview :Madame Chrysanth me is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a... Read More
Overview :Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc., is an elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats... Read More
Overview :"Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pe... Read More
Overview :Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of ... Read More
Overview :John Lawson (1674 - 1711) was a British explorer, naturalist and writer. He played an important role in the history of colonial North Caroli... Read More
Overview :The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric R cker Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war bet... Read More
Overview :"The Book of Tea" (1906) by Okakura Kakuzo, is a long essay linking the role of tea (Teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japane... Read More
Overview :The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the j... Read More
Overview :"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," generally referred to by its shortened title "The Wealth of Nations," is t... Read More
Overview :An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the... Read More
Overview :A collection of over 80 poems from China encompassing the years 200 BC to 1100 AD, this book serves as an excellent introduction to Chinese ... Read More
Overview :The Analects, or Lunyu (literally "Selected Sayings"), also known as the Analects of Confucius, is the collection of sayings and ideas attri... Read More
Overview :The "Hidden Force" is a 1900 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The story is set at the end of the nineteenth century and concerns th... Read More
Overview :Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 - 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of c... Read More
Overview :"Mare Liberum" is a book (originally written in Latin) on international law written by the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius. In Mar... Read More
Overview :In 1909, American agronomist F.H. King toured China, Korea and Japan, studying traditional fertilization, tillage and general farming practi... Read More
Overview :Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier Thomas Edward Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"),... Read More
Overview :"The Physicians of Myddfai"("Meddygon Myddvai" in Welsh), or "The medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, of Myddfai, in ... Read More