Lord Jim (Picador Books) (Serie Aventures de Joseph Conrad, #4)
by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim (1900): Jim is one of Conrad's most complex creations, and Conrad explores, along the vast horizon of this gorgeous novel, the phenomena of shame, guilt, retribution -- and redemption. How right it is for our times!Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives. V.S. Pritchett wrot...
Anna Karenina (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster)) (Oprah, #5)
by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband and an adoring mother to her young son, until she meets Count Vronsky, a young officer of the guards. He pursues her and she falls madly in love with him. Her husband refuses to divorce her, so she gives up everything, including her beloved son, to be with Vronsky. After...
Youth (1856) is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It was first published in the popular Russian literary magazine Sovremennik.
The Kybalion (Cathedral Classics) (Dover Occult)
by Three Initiates and Three Intiates
The Kybalion has long fascinated readers with its exploration of hermetic wisdom. Credited to the mysterious Three Initiates, The Kybalion is an esoteric classic that has remained popular since its initial publication in 1908 and continues to sell exceptionally well. The book explores the Seven Hermetic Principles - including the Principles of Causation, Mental Transmutation, and Polarity - and the philosophies it contains became founding ideas in the New Thought movement. This edition of the...
The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian Classics in Russian and English) (Penguin Great Loves)
by Leo Tolstoy
"To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love". Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout his 60-year career as a writer a significant body of works of shorter ficiton. These fictions, like his novels, tend toward a uniqueness in form, even as they explore a set of themes common in the long...
Meeting failure in his search for wealth in the 1851 Australian gold rush, a dispirited Mr. Cole takes the next available ship back to England -- and falls in love with Eva Denison, a beautiful and accomplished young woman traveling with her exotic Portuguese step-father. After a disaster at sea Cole returns to anonymity in London...or so he thinks. Events lead to the discovery of a horrible conspiracy, and then to an adventure that may cost Cole his greatest love.
Чёртовы куклы . Захудалый род (The Devil Dolls; A Decayed Family)
by Николай C Лесков and Nikolai Leskov
The Writings Of Thomas Paine (Thomas Paine, #2) (Volume, #2)
by Thomas Paine
Against Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism in Poland has always been a deeply problematic subject. In the years since the Holocaust, much has been written about the willingness of Poles to collaborate with the Nazis, willingly handing over Polish Jews and often profiting from it in the process. Such assertions have led to a widespread and ongoing stereotype that Poles are a deeply, inherently anti-Semitic people. In fact, Adam Michnik argues, while there are certainly anti-Semites among Poles, resistance to anti-Semitism is...