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Torquemada, a drama about the Spanish inquisition, is one of the greatest masterpieces of the master poet of the 19th century. The construction of this tragedy is absolutely original and unique: free and full of change as the wildest and loosest and roughest of dramatic structures ever flung together,...

'Oliver Cromwell' was written in 1827, but was not performed until 1956. The reasons were its length of almost 7000 verses and Hugo's gigantic list of characters. The drama tells the story of Oliver Cromwell's internal conflicts in being offered the crown of England. The preface is nowadays considered as one of the manifestos of the Romantic movement.

The drama 'Hernani' tells the story of Doña Sol, the sun of Madrid, who is loved by Don Carlos, king of Spain, by the old duke, Ruy Gomez, and by Hernani, leader of the revolutionists, upon whose head a price is set. Doña Sol loves only Hernani; she receives him secretly at night in the house of...

Le roi s'amuse, best translated as 'The King Amuses Himself', is a play in five acts. It is set in Paris in the 1520s and the plot was used for Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. The main person of the play is Triboulet, a witty court jester, through whose words Hugo frequently attacks contemporary society.

Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering; the tragedy and the comedy of life at its darkest and its brightest, of humanity at its...

Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering; the tragedy and the comedy of life at its darkest and its brightest, of humanity at its...

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well...

"In the Fire of the Heart" is the biggest and prettiest of those fine "Life Books" by Ralph Waldo Trine. And some say it's the best-which is saying a good deal. This book deals with cosmic things, love, life, beautiful living, socialism and "agencies whereby we shall secure...

Neville Goddard was one of the most gifted and yet most underrated spiritualists and mystics of his time. His books "Power of Awareness" or "Prayer - The Art of Believing" belong to the best books spiritual readers can find. This book is concerned with the art of realizing your...

New thought is the culmination of many recent cults, and this volume aims at a clear and distinct statement of the principles of the philosophy signified by the term. The author seeks to set forth the divergence between t(ie new system, orthodox creeds and Christian Science. Some of the chapter subjects...

Florence Scovel Shinn was a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer. In "The Secret Door To Success" she shows the easy path to prosperity and wealth by teaching how to conquer your own and personal inside Jericho. This edition includes as a bonus another one of her publications called "Your Word Is Your Wand".

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old...

Bastiat's "Sophismes Economiques" was translated during the free-trade agitation in England, by Mr. Porter, the author of " Tho Progress of the Nation," and was widely circulated, under the title of " Popular Fallacies regarding General Interests." It contains probably...

Bastiat's "Economic Sophisms”, translated by Dr. Patrick James Stirling, were eagerly welcomed by students of political economy who were not really familiar with French. His object in this work was, as he says, "to refute the fallacies of the Protectionist School, then predominant in France,...