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 »

These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. Yet, long as this period is, it is too brief. To do justice ... more »

By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of this people, this bulletin proposes to show that an intimate connection exists between their ritual acts, their moral standards, their social organization, even their ... 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 »

The wide use of the author's History of English Literature, the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Bilingual E-book - Ebook bilingue Vous apprenez l'anglais ? Laissez vous aider. Lisez les classiques dans leur langue d'origine. Tous nos ebooks contiennent l'oeuvre en version originale ainsi que sa traduction. Chaque ligne de dialogue ou chaque paragraphe est lié à sa version française et vice versa ... more »

Avant que de parler des tropes en particulier, je dois dire un mot des figures en général ; puisque les tropes ne sont qu'une espéce de figures. On dit comunément que les figures sont des maniéres de parler éloignées de celles qui sont naturéles et ordinaires  : que ce sont de certains tours ... more »