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Vom Kriege (On War) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in 1832. It has been translated into English several times as On War. On War is actually an unfinished...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play. It was published in two parts: Faust: der Tragodie erster Teil (translated as: Faust: The Tragedy Part One) and Faust: der Tragodie zweiter Teil (Faust: The Tragedy Part Two). The play is a closet drama, meaning that it is meant to be read rather...

Translated by Constance Garnett. Notes from Underground is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1864. It is considered the world's first existentialist work. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics...

Pinocchio is a fictional character that first appeared in 1883, in The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others. Carved from a piece of pine by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he was created as a wooden puppet, but dreamt of becoming a real boy. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A New Revised Version From Original SourcesTranslated by George Fyler Townsend (1887)With Upwards of 200 Illustrations By Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset And Others

This book features a table of contents linked to every story. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display....

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative...

The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835-1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A short film based on the story...

Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, in which the traditional...

The Phantom of the Opera (in French, Le Fantome de l'Opera) is a French novel by Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. Some believe it to have been inspired by George du Maurier's Trilby. Trilby is based on real events...

This book is the fourth of seven volumes of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's popular translation of Proust's massive semi-autobiographical novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Library in the 1930s). Its title was once translated as Cities of the Plain, perhaps because the mention...

Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, the stories of Empar Moliner lay bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle class psyche. From the zeal of a mothers' group staging a world record breastfeeding attempt to couples role-playing their way into parenthood...

With this book, we enter the home stretch of Marcel Proust's massive seven-volume novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Library in the 1930s). The whole work, itself, was assembled over years and not necessarily in any particularly linear order. The writing reveals the...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic...