Category: Classics

By Alfred Korzybski

The booklet has no illustrations or index. buyers are entitled to a unfastened trial club within the common Books membership the place they could choose from greater than 1000000 books at no cost. matters: humans; growth; guy; historical past / basic; background / Social heritage; Language Arts

By Margaret Wise Brown

In a good eco-friendly room, tucked away in mattress, is a bit bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all of the ordinary issues within the softly lit room—to the image of the 3 little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to every little thing one by way of one—the little bunny says goodnight.

In this vintage of kid's literature, cherished via generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the phrases and the light, lulling illustrations mix to make an ideal publication for the top of the day.

This board booklet variation is definitely the right dimension for little hands.

By Elsa Dixler

By Michael Ende

Bastian embarks on a wild experience while he enters the mystical global of Fantastica, a doomed land packed with dragons, giants, and monsters, and dangers his existence to avoid wasting Fantastica by way of happening a truly harmful quest.

By Jack London

This version is written in English. in spite of the fact that, there's a operating Korean glossary on the backside of every web page for the tougher English phrases highlighted within the textual content. there are lots of variations of the decision of the Wild. This variation will be precious when you

By C.H. Becker Ph.D.

From one of many best students of Islam within the final century comes this exploration of Christianity and Islam. correct from the start Becker notes that there are various issues of view at the topic. analyzing the character of the topic and the old connections among the religions, he turns to the assembly of the 2 faiths. Early in his exploration he addresses the increase of Islam and its impression at the Christianity of the time. Over the process his discourse, Becker probes what Muhammad knew of Christianity and the placement of Christians below Islam. subsequent he turns to the center a long time. their similarities, he comes to a decision that metaphysically the religions usually are not that diverse. actually, either religions impression the opposite. Noting facets of the everyday life and doctrinal outlook of Islam, Becker compares those to Christian lifestyles and outlooks. rising outlooks on the time verified simply how a lot those religions affected one another. these attracted to the background of western religions will locate this a clean source.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The topic from various issues of view: limits of remedy the character of the topic: the old issues of connection among Christianity and Islam A. Christianity and the increase of Islam:

1. Muhammed and his contemporaries 2. The impression of Christianity upon the improvement of Muhammed three. Muhammed's wisdom of Christianity four. the placement of Christians less than Muhammedanism

B. The similarity of Christian and Muhammedan metaphysics through the heart ages:

1. The capacity and course during which Christian impact affected 2. Islam 2. The penetration of everyday life via the spirit of faith; asceticism, contradictions and impacts affecting the improvement of a clerical category and the speculation of marriage three. the speculation of lifestyles more often than not just about the doctrine of immortality four. the angle of faith in the direction of the nation, monetary existence, society, and so forth. five. The everlasting value to Islam of those affects: the doctrine of tasks 6. Ritual 7. Mysticism and the worship of saints eight. Dogma and the improvement of scholasticism

C. The effect of Islam upon Christianity: the style during which this effect operated, and the reason of the prevalence of Islam

The impression of Muhammedan philosophy the hot global of eu Christendom and the trendy East end. The old development of religion

By Curzio Malaparte

This is often the 1st unexpurgated English variation of Curzio Malaparte’s mythical paintings The Skin. The ebook starts in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip at the devastated urban of Naples. The someday Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is operating with the americans as a liaison officer. He takes care of Colonel Jack Hamilton, “a Christian gentleman . . . an American within the noblest feel of the word,” who speaks French and cites the classics and holds his nostril because the males travel the squalid streets of a urban in ruins the place liberation is barely one other notice for desperation. Veterans of the disbanded Italian military beg for paintings. an extraordinary specimen from the city’s recognized aquarium is served up at a banquet for top Allied officials. Prostitution is rampant. The odor of demise is everywhere.

Subtle, cynical, evasive, manipulative, unnerving, consistently wonderful, Malaparte is a perfect artist of the unreliable, either the product and the prophet of a global long past rotten to the middle.

By Andre Gide

A fragile boy turning out to be up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's condo within the Normandy nation-state, the place the full international turns out 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love along with his cousin Alissa and he or she with him. yet steadily Alissa turns into confident that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. within the pursuits of his salvation, she makes a decision to suppress every thing that's attractive in herself - in either brain and physique. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, "Strait is the Gate" is a singular of haunting good looks that stimulates the brain and the sentiments

By Paul Scott

No set of novels so richly recreates the final days of India lower than British rule—"two international locations locked in an imperial embrace"—as Paul Scott's ancient journey de strength, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel within the Crown opens in 1942 because the British worry either jap invasion and Indian calls for for independence. at the evening after the Indian Congress get together votes to aid Ghandi, riots escape and an formidable police sargeant arrests a tender Indian for the alleged rape of the girl they either love.

By Various

Book Description:

This is an unlimited choice of nice Arthurian literature: poetry, drama and essays, written after the most canon, largely within the 18th via to the early twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; Prince Arthur: half ii, through Richard Blackmore [1695]; King Arthur: half I, by means of Richard Blackmore [1697]

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