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As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. In Kai Lung's Golden Hours he is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien...

In issuing this volume of my Mathematical Puzzles, of which some have appeared in periodicals and others are given here for the first time, I must acknowledge the encouragement that I have received from many unknown correspondents, at home and abroad, who have expressed a desire to have the problems...

MY name is Mervington Smythers. I was born in London, but have not had the inestimable advantage of in any way profiting by my short residence in that centre of civilisation, being only some four years old when my parents landed in Sydney. My father was a gentleman, living upon his income,...

Extrait : "Le jeudi, 6 octobre, vers quatre heures du soir, j'abordai à Shanghai. Ma première visite fut pour la Poste et le Consulat, où j'ai trouvé les lettres de ma famille et de mes amis."

In the year 19— a legend adorned with gold and bearing the significant words, “The Securities Investment Association, Mr. Philip Rutley, President, Mr. Jack Shore, Secretary-Treasurer,” appeared on the glass panel of a certain office door on Third street, in the city of Portland, Oregon.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Most of the characters in this tale are from life, and some of the main events are historical, although the actual scenes and names are not given. Many men now living will remember Fighting Bill Kenna and the Horse...

First published in 1959, Metamorphosis remains one of the great works of developmental psychology of the past century. From his thoughtful meditation on the assumptions of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, among them the pleasure and reality principles, the relations of drive and affect, and the...

Kilimanjaro é uma montanha coberta de neve, com seis mil metros de altura, que, segundo se diz, é a montanha mais alta de África. O seu cume ocidental tem o nome de Ngaje Nagai, em masai a Casa de Deus. Estão reunidas neste volume algumas das histórias mais famosas de Hemingway, como a que dá...

Composto por 28 contos, Contos: Volume 1 reúne fortes e densas narrativas, cheias de aventura, violência, brutalidade, realismo e nostalgia, com trechos emocionantes, nascidos da imaginação e da experiência de um homem que viveu intensamente o seu tempo, e que, por temperamento, sempre abominou...

Extrait : 2. Qu’est-ce qu’un bouddhiste ? C’est un homme qui vénère le Bouddha comme la Lumière du monde, comme le maître et le guide suprême de tous les êtres vivants ; qui regarde comme vraie la doctrine qu’il a enseignée ; en suit les préceptes...

L’événement capital de l’histoire du monde est la révolution par laquelle les plus nobles portions de l’humanité  ont passé des anciennes religions, comprises sous le nom vague de paganisme, à une religion fondée sur l’unité ...

Biography and assessment of Leo Tolstoy's spiritual quest, philosophy and teachings by Crosby, his leading contemporary follower in the United States. Contents: Tolstoy's Boyhood and Manhood; His Great Spiritual Crisis; His Answer to the Riddle of Life; The Basis of his Moral and Social Code; His Teaching...

«Desde las de Poe, las de Max Carrados son las únicas historias detectivescas que merece la pena volver a leer». GEORGE ORWELL Hubo un tiempo en que las aventuras protagonizadas por Max Carrados, competían en popularidad en las páginas de The Strand Magazine con las del mismísimo Sherlock Holmes....

Hymne à Vénus.  Hymne à une femme aimée.  Epitaphes.  Fragmens.