Aegitas: 289 books

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC ( 23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician. Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in- law, Billy. In spite...

The tale of Francis Herries, the "rogue" of the title. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale valley (his home for 40 years) and his unrequited love for gypsy Mirabell Starr are the two forces which drive him.

Selected rubáyát by Omar Khayyam about the meaning of life in translated by Richard Le Gallienne.Works of the following artists are used in this publication: Mohammad Tajvidi, Charles Landelle, Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jacques Aved, Paul-Louis Bouchard, Ludwig Deutsch.

The novel consists of the letters of Elizabeth to her mother. Elizabeth is a delightful character, beautiful, unaffected, innocent, and very, very sharp. Her innocence prevents her from seeing the implications of her observations (when she sees a shadowy figure wandering the halls at night, she thinks...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work...

Братья Стругацкие — Аркадий Натанович и Борис Натанович — советские и российские писатели, соавторы, сценаристы, классики современной научной и социальной фантастики....

Братья Стругацкие — Аркадий Натанович и Борис Натанович — советские и российские писатели, соавторы, сценаристы, классики современной научной и социальной фантастики....

The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (English: Moral Epistles to Lucilius) is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. In these letters,...

Illustrated electronic edition of a Shakespearean tragedy prepared in accordance with the principles of The World in Pictures project, providing a complete set of illustrations, among them 32 illustrations by outstanding painters, with a comprehensive rendering of the plot. Texts by Charles and Mery...

The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (English: Moral Epistles to Lucilius) is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. In these letters,...

Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, The, by Maurice Hewlett (1900). A historical romance of the third Crusade. The story purports to be written by the Abbot Milo, confessor and friend of Richard Cœur de Lion called Richard Yea-and-Nay by Bertran de Born, the troubadour, because of the strange...

Притчей принято называть некий специфический короткий назидательный рассказ, который в иносказательной форме, заключает в себе нравственное поучение. Как жанр притча...

Publicada por vez primera en Gran Bretaña en 1881 y, debido a su éxito, traducida nueve años después al francés, Autobiografía de una pulga permanecía aún inédita en castellano. Autobiografía de una pulga posee todos los elementos que caracterizan a la novela erótica inglesa de finales del...

The main speaker in the book, identified by the name or title Qoheleth (usually translated as "teacher" or "preacher"), introduces himself as "son of David, king in Jerusalem." The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs...