Alexandria: 8857 books

IT is six hundred and fifty years since Chretien de Troyes wrote his Cliges. And yet he is wonderfully near us, whereas he is separated by a great gulf from the rude trouveres of the Chansons de Gestes and from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was still dragging out its weary length in his early days....

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...

Again it come to pass, in the fulness of time, that my companion, Josiah Allen, see me walk up and take my ink stand off of the manteltry piece, and carry it with a calm and majestick gait to the corner of the settin' room table devoted by me to literary pursuits. And he sez to me: "What are you goin'...

In theoretical as well as applied psychology no term is more misleading, or confusing than the term consciousness. We use the term often in our conversation; we come across it in our study; but when we are asked to define it properly, to explain its significance, its meaning, or the idea for which that...

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere, especially in countries where excessive liberty or excessive tiffin favors the growth of that class of adventurers most usually designated as drummers, or by a still more potent servility, the ruthless predatory instinct of certain bold...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...

“SMOOTH” BRODY, due to receive fifteen yards in cash from the successful hijacking he had led the night before, let himself into the private office of Jimmy Claffey without knocking, lounged over to the desk. “Slip me,” he said to the chief of the High- Jack-Game mob. “Surest thing you know,...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

Docena y media de casucas, algunas de ellas formadas en semicírculo, a lo cual se llamaba plaza, y en el punto más alto de ella una iglesia a la moda del día, es decir, ruinosa a partes, y a partes arruinada ya, era lo que componía años hace, y seguirá componiendo probablemente, un pueblo cuyo...

Nunca he acertado a leer los libros de Pereda con la impasibilidad crítica con que leo otros libros. Para mí (y pienso que lo mismo sucede a todos los que hemos nacido de peñas al mar), esos libros, antes que juzgados, son sentidos. Son algo tan de nuestra tierra y de nuestra vida, como la brisa de...

I Pulcro y rollizo; suave y risueño, y, al mismo tiempo, solemne y espetado; vulgar obscuro de meollo; rico, huérfano y libre; sin nervios ni hieles en el cuerpo, ni señal de polvo de las aulas en la ropa; vicioso a la chita callando; enamorado de su estampa, de su talento, de su elocuencia, y especialmente...