Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people ... more »

Readers, writers, wordsmiths, verbivores, and logophiles rejoice! Renowned lexicographer and author Eugene Ehrlich gathers the 3,500 most engrossing words in the English language and their concise definitions, including short discussions for words most often confused and misused by today's speakers and ... more »

Henry Miller's brief yet vibrant account of his days in the Paris suburb. The work also features the author on the road with some intriguing adventures in the low countries. This title was first published by Olympia in 1956, and later made into a film with Miller's approval. more »

Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They forget that in time of danger, in the ... more »

Henry Miller's best-known and most famous work (on anybody's top 100 list, and among this year's top 50 sellers), was first published by Girodias's father in 1934. The book itself was accepted by Jack Kahane in '31, but the economy and Kahane's legal struggles led him to continually delay launching the ... more »

Nos deux yeux ne rendent pas notre condition meilleure; l'un nous sert à voir les biens, et l'autre les maux de la vie; bien des gens ont la mauvaise habitude de fermer le premier, et bien peu ferment le second; voilà pourquoi il y a tant de gens qui aimeraient mieux être aveugles que de voir tout ce ... more »

This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in ... more »

To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later, the beginnings of a real literature seemed definitely fixed in the generation which passed between the first and second Punic Wars. The peace of B.C. 241 closed an epoch throughout which the Roman Republic had been fighting for an ... more »

Product Info Hermann Löns - Die Häuser von Ohlenhof. Der Roman eines Dorfes. Zweite, überarbeitete Auflage 06/2003. more »

In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the King's castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree ... more »

Das Phänomen des Dandytums, das um 1800 mit Lord Byron beginnt und um 1900 mit Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Max Beerbohm und anderen einen deutlichen Höhepunkt verzeichnet, erlebt zurzeit eine erstaunliche Renaissance. Namen wie Tom Wolfe, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre oder Christian Kracht sind in ... more »

Good news: You don't have to sacrifice style just to pay your electric bill. Kathryn Finney, a.k.a. the Budget Fashionista, is the expert on all things chic and cheap. Now she opens up her Prada bag of shopping and style tips to make you fashionably frugal, with change to spare. It's as easy as 1-2-3 ... more »