History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Persian War)

Author

George Eliot

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner...

Author	Snorri Sturluson
ISBN	0292764995

The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life...

Author

Elias Lönnrot

When Elias Lönnrot was born in 1802, Finland was a province of Sweden; by the time he came to compile the Kalevala in the 1830s and 1840s, it was part of the Russian Empire. ‘Finnishness’ was (and had been since the twelfth century) little more than a shared idea, and sometimes a dangerous...

Author	Norman Sherry
ISBN	0142004200

Graham Greene was one of the most guarded and complex literary figures of our time. In the first volume of Norman Sherry’s celebrated biography, Greene’s early life is explored through letters, diaries, and hundreds of interviews, including a breakdown in his early teens, his years at Oxford,...

Author	Victor Pelevin
ISBN	5699156216

О чем роман? Да все о том же: о жизни и смерти, о любви и ненависти, о верности и предательстве, о свободе и несвободе, о высоком и низком и, главное, о специфической...

Author	Selma Lagerlöf
ISBN	9174481827

En närmast gotisk roman baserad på verkliga händelser i Bohuslän på 1570-talet. Prästen Herr Arne blir mördad med hela sin familj, utom en ung flicka som överlever. Hennes öde vävs sedan samman med mördarnas. Berättelsen har både kosmiska dimensioner och psykologiskt djup. Den isländska...