Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of E T A Hoffmann Illustrated written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 3480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German author of fantasy and Gothic horror, E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote original and spine-chilling tales that highly influenced nineteenth-century literature, confirming his status as one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. His story ‘Das Fräulein von Scuder’ is often cited as the first detective story and his novella ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ went on to inspire Tchaikovsky's celebrated ballet. Hoffmann was a pioneer of the fantasy genre, with a taste for the macabre combined with realism that influenced such authors as Poe, Gogol, Dickens, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky and Kafka. This eBook presents Hoffmann’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hoffmann’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 3 novels, with individual contents tables * Features a recent translation by Michael Haldane of the rare novel ‘Little Zaches’, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare Gothic tales available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the tales you want to read * Features three biographies – discover Hoffmann’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels The Devil’s Elixirs (1815) Little Zaches (1819) Master Flea (1822) The Tales The Serapion Brethren (1819) Weird Tales (1885) Miscellaneous Tales The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Biographies Introduction to Hoffmann (1885) by J. T. Bealby E. T. W. Hoffmann (1896) by Thomas Carlyle E. T. A. Hoffmann (1911) by John George Robertson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Gaston Leroux Illustrated written by Gaston Leroux and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 4282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for his enduring horror masterpiece ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished author of detective fiction. Featuring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille, his intelligently structured stories of ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room’ and ‘The Perfume of the Woman in Black’ have enthralled readers for over a hundred years. This eBook features the largest collection of Leroux’s tales ever compiled in English translation, with many rare works appearing for the first time in digital print, accompanied with informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Leroux’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 19 novels with individual contents tables — many appearing here for the first time * Features six Joseph Rouletabille novels * The complete Chéri Bibi novels * Includes Leroux’s last novel, ‘Mister Flow’ (The Man of a Hundred Faces), first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * The majority of translations were made by Hannaford Bennett * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with the rare novel 'The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert' - first time in digital print Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Adventures of Rouletabille The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) The Perfume of the Woman in Black (1908) Secret of the Night (1913) The Slave Bangle (1921) The Sleuth Hound (1922) Chéri Bibi Series The Wolves of the Sea (1913) Chéri-Bibi and Cecily (1916) The Dark Road (1921) The New Idol (1926) Other Novels The Man with the Black Feather (1903) The Phantom of the Opera (1909) Balaoo (1911) The Bride of the Sun (1912) The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert (1917) The Veiled Prisoner (1917) The Kiss That Killed (1923) The Son of Three Fathers (1924) The Adventures of a Coquette (1924) The Man of a Hundred Faces (1927) Lady Helena; or, The Mysterious Lady by Louis Latzarus (1929) The Short Fiction Miscellaneous Short Stories Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of August Strindberg Illustrated written by August Strindberg and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 8140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal figure of late nineteenth century theatre, the Swedish playwright, novelist and essayist August Strindberg produced over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, often drawing directly on his personal experience. A bold experimenter of literary forms, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama and history plays, to expressionist and surrealist works. This comprehensive eBook presents the largest collection of Strindberg’s works ever compiled in English translation, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Strindberg’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major plays and other texts * 29 plays, with individual contents tables * Features rare plays appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Mother Love’ and ‘The Saga of the Folkungs’ * Early twentieth century translations by Warner Oland, Edwin Björkman, Claud Field, Ellie Schleussner and more (too many to list in this description; each translator’s name appears at the beginning of each work) * Excellent formatting of the texts * 6 novels by Strindberg * A wide selection of short story collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Selection of Strindberg’s non-fiction * Special criticism section, with 4 essays evaluating Strindberg’s contribution to literature * Features a bonus biography - discover Strindberg’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Plays The Outlaw Master Olof Lucky Pehr The Father Comrades Miss Julie Creditors The Stronger Pariah Simoom Debit and Credit Facing Death Mother Love The Link The First Warning The Road to Damascus Advent There are Crimes and Crimes Gustavus Vasa Erik XIV The Saga of the Folkungs Easter The Dance of Death The Bridal Crown Swanwhite The Dream Play The Thunderstorm After the Fire Spook Sonata The Novels The Red Room The Son of a Servant The Confession of a Fool On the Seaboard The Inferno The Growth of a Soul The Short Story Collections Married Historical Miniatures Fair Haven and Foul Strand The German Lieutenant and Other Stories In Midsummer Days and Other Tales The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order Non-Fiction Zones of the Spirit Legends: Autobiographical Sketches The Criticism August Strindberg by James Huneker The Eccentricity of August Strindberg by Otto Heller August Strindberg by Horace Barnett Samuel The Madness of Strindberg by Robert Lynd The Biography August Strindberg: The Spirit of Revolt by L. Lind-af-Hageby Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau Illustrated written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 3656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com

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Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Download or read book Delphi Poetry Anthology The World s Greatest Poems written by Homer and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 3925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the bestselling Delphi Poets Series, this eBook features The World's Greatest Poems, with verses and extracts from poetical plays and seminal epic poems that have shaped the course of poetry over the centuries. From the earliest beginnings of Western literature in Homer's epics, to the Renaissance masterpieces of Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare; from the evocative beauty of the Romantic poets to the brilliance of Yeats, the War Poets and other modern masters, this collection provides hundreds of the world's most beloved poets and thousands of treasured verses. (Version 2) * Excellent formatting of the poems * Wide breadth of poets from across time and cultures * Special alphabetical contents tables for the poems and poets * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order CONTENTS: The World’s Greatest Poems CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER LIST OF POETS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book But Is It Art written by Cynthia Freeland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.

Download or read book The Mandaean Book of John written by Charles G. Häberl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

Download or read book The Serapion Brethren written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why We Read Fiction written by Lisa Zunshine and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, and Austen s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshine's surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.

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Download or read book The Politics Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Politics in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Politics Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Politics, with: - More than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Politics Book is a captivating introduction to the world's greatest thinkers and their political big ideas that continue to shape our lives today, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Delve into the development of long-running themes, like attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India, all through exciting text and bold graphics. Your Politics Questions, Simply Explained This engaging overview explores the big political ideas such as capitalism, communism, and fascism, exploring their beginnings and social contexts - and the political thinkers who have made significant contributions. If you thought it was difficult to learn about governing bodies and affairs, The Politics Book presents key information in a clear layout. Learn about the ideas of ancient and medieval philosophers and statesmen, as well as the key personalities of the 16th to the 21st centuries that have shaped political thinking, policy, and statecraft. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Politics Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Download or read book Early Greek Alphabetic Writing written by Natalia Elvira Astoreca and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. The research concerning the so-called epichoric scripts was introduced by Kirchhoff in the 19th century and saw its highest point in the 1960s with the works of Jeffery and Guarducci. Nevertheless, recent epigraphical finds and new possibilities offered by digital tools call for a revised, comprehensive study of these alphabets. Unlike previous research, which was mostly concerned with palaeography, this book presents a linguistic analysis of the epichoric alphabets that follows the latest trends in grapholinguistics and the methodology of comparative graphematics. The latter is a branch of writing systems research focused on the relationship between graphemes and the values that they represent and compares them across writing systems. This study compares the different Greek alphabets in their earliest stages, i.e. 8th and 7th centuries BC, also taking into account other contemporaneous alphabets, like those for Phrygian, Eteocretan and the Italic languages. Through the analysis of the data provided by the epigraphic texts dated within the chronological framework of this thesis, it is possible to identify the different notation systems that Greek-speakers devised to represent their dialects in writing. This brings new insights on the innovations created by these communities and the different alphabetic traditions present in Greece and across the Mediterranean. The conclusion of the book emphasizes the need to study these regional alphabets independently, rather than considering them as part of a unified entity - 'the Greek alphabet' - which did not exist at the time, and creates a new line for future research that intends to frame them individually within the ecology of ancient Mediterranean alphabets.

Download or read book Gramophone Film Typewriter written by Friedrich A. Kittler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On history of communication