Media Galaxy: 2173 books

Mark Twain was a quintessential American writer, humorist, lecturer, essayist. His creation covers many genres – humor, satire, philosophic fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and the author’s position permanently is on the side of humanism and democracy, that is why he is often considered the...

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary...

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who was known as "the father of pragmatism". On May 14, 1867, the 27-year-old Charles Sanders Peirce presented a work entitled "On a New List of Categories" to the American Academy of Arts...

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist,literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.    Andrew was born in Selkirk. The writer's  family was big, he was eldest of eight children. Andrew's mother named Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was...

The Culture of Western Chukotka situated in the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation for lots of people stays even in the present time the unknown and chiefly unreachable phenomenon but in the beginning of 20th century...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a French writer, a founder of realism genre in European literature. He is famous for his collection of novels "The human comedy". During his life Balzac was very popular in Europe and considered to be one of the best writers of the 19th century. "Eugenie...

It is an 1831 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion...

Horatio Alger books... These are «rags-to-riches» stories, its’ heroes rise from poverty to wealth, they are patient, smart and determined to their white collar work. They know that hard work is the only key to success. However, it’s not all about hardworking. Only random acts of courage...

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) is well-known as a collector of British folk and fairy tales, he was Victorian poet, novelist, academic and critic too. His poem had success, he became famous published Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors – series of twelve different colored collections...

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist,literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.    Andrew was born in Selkirk. The writer's  family was big, he was eldest of eight children. Andrew's mother named Jane Plenderleath Sellar,...

William Gaertner (1864-1948) was an American instrument maker who was considered one of the founding fathers in this industry. 'Astronomical Instruments And Accessories' is one of the major works by William Gaertner that represents a catalogue of different devises used by astronomers, mostly...

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics. His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, magnetism, bringing together for the first time electricity and light as manifestations...

David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist known today especially for his radical philosophical empiricism and skepticism. The author described the problem of standards of the taste from a general aesthetic viewpoint in this work. A taste – is an ability to...

Charles Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the traditional reasoning about the natural world. His theory of evolution with compelling evidence he converted in the book “On the Origin of Species”, published in 1859. The monumental...