Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

This classic Japanese story by Soseki Netsume-the foremost novelist of the Meiji Period—is a masterpiece of Japanese literature. This book demonstrates Soseki Natsume's ability to dissect and elucidate the human personality in all its complexity. Here, his facile blending of narrative, extended...

In the wake of the Battle of Flodden, Scotland was ruled in name only. The boy king, James V was at the mercy of ambitous rival factions, and beyond them, the ever-watchful, looming presence of Henry VIII of England. Escaping from the clutches of the power-hungry Earl of Angus, his most effective...

By the power of his sword arm, his dragon fleet and his sheer personality, Somerled Norse Slayer carved an enduring name for himself in Scottish legend. Inheriting his father's shattered thanedom in Argyll in the twelfth century, he enlarged it by courage, initiative, military shrewdness and diplomacy....

Maître Pierre, le fermier, acheta une belle bourrique qui s’appelait Manette, et qu’on lui dit tranquille et douce, et il l’amena à la maison. Le lendemain, je retournai à la Herse, et tout se passa pour le mieux. Mais le troisième jour, Manette commença à faire des grimaces pour passer le petit ruisseau, et puis elle voulut brouter des branchettes le long d’une haie...

George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English author who also worked as a teacher.  Gissing wrote over 20 novels including New Grub Street, The Nether World, and The Odd Women.  This edition of The Odd Women includes a table of contents.

Si Hannibal Barca, le grand Hannibal, a quitté son sol attiré par un idéal extérieur, Hannibal ben Omer n’a d’autre choix que de partir poussé de l’intérieur par les forces de la précarité et du chômage. À New York, en Sardaigne, en Sicile, peu à peu ce nouvel Ulysse se découvre,...

Un libro zibaldone di materiali narrativi da officina letteraria personale che trasfigurano in amari o irridenti sguardi sul mondo, sul tempo che l’autore vive, sulla repubblica delle lettere, un Journal stralunato che è insieme letteratura morale, diario, estensione di abbozzi narrativi. “Viaggiarono...

Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888) needs little introduction, as she is one of the most famous American female authors, whose most famous work is Little Women. She also served as a nurse for six weeks during the Civil War at Union Hospital in Georgetown. Her letters were compiled to create Hospital Sketches....

"There are times when trouble accumulates as an avalanche, or like water in one of those natural intermittent springs that break out plentifully, and dry up altogether in a sort of alternation. But the spring has its regular period, and trouble has not, and in an avalanche of disasters it is...

The politics, organized crime, and affluence of the new South come together in World’s End, a parish below New Orleans where the continental United States slides into the Gulf of Mexico. World’s End abounds in oil, racial diversity, and political control as subtle and as absolute as that of a...

«La danse des Ombres », premier roman de Mehdi Dadsetan, est l’histoire de tous les exilés du monde... Celle des hommes et des femmes contraints de laisser derrière eux leur passé, de se jeter, comme des pierres, dans un univers inconnu et de tenter de reconstituer, morceau par morceau, jour...

An ancient tribe journeys to fulfill a prophecy, uncertain whether or not they should believe the advice of a strange, mysterious child.Time: PastWord Count: 2434(this story contains: death)SAMPLE: (677 words out of 2434 words)Many many years ago, in a place far far away,...

Jerrick Yazzie has a plan. It starts with him putting his feet on the boarding school dorm floor in Arizona and ends with a visit to New York City and the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum. He has never been outside of the safety of the sacred mountains of the Navajo. Danger and the unknown are everywhere. Will he complete his journey or will his adventure turn into a disaster?

La storia può essere considerata una sorta di seguito di I misteri della jungla nera. Scopriamo che Suyodhana ha massacrato il padre di Ada, e che Tremal-Naik è stato fatto prigioniero dagli inglesi e condotto a Sarawak. Kammamuri, volendo liberare il suo padrone, si imbarca sulla "Young India"...