Jacques the Fatalist

Author	Montesquieu
ISBN	0140442812

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. As they travel, they write home to wives and eunuchs in the harem and to friends in France and elsewhere. Their colourful observations...

Author	François Rabelais
ISBN	0140445501

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.

Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable...

Author	Xun Lu
ISBN	0824813170

This collection of short stories by Lu Xun, commonly considered one of the greatest writers in 20th-century China and often referred to as the father of modern Chinese literature, includes the celebrated short story, "A Madman's Diary". This short story is considered to be one of the first and most...

Author	Paul Celan
ISBN	0856462659

"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped...

Author

Kālidāsa

Abhijñānashākuntala = Abhignana sakuntalam = Shakuntala: A sanskrit drama by kalidas, Kālidāsa
Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम् – Abhijñānashākuntala, Shakuntala, also known as The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala,...

Author	Gustave Flaubert
ISBN	1564783936

Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Balzac, George Sand. Quiseram saber tudo sobre o amor, o sujeito filosófico, a política, o socialismo, o belo, a estética, o sublime, a escrita, Deus, a Bíblia, a educação. Apaixonaram-se, mas as mulheres revoltavam-nos. Quiseram...

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0060969598

The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight.

Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli...

Author	Tobias Smollett
ISBN	1847024920

Does the above book cover for Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle look like an invitation to a frolicking, sexually charged escapade all in the spirit of good, clean fun? That's precisely what the publisher of this edition is aiming for.

Much, much different from...

Author

Saadi

The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz, Saadi
Bustan ("Būstān") is a book of poetry by the Persian poet Saadi, completed in 1257. Saadi's first work, and its title means "the orchard". The book contains the fruits of Saadi's long experience and his judgements upon life, and is illustrated...

Author	Henry Fielding
ISBN	1426413807

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Author	J.L. Carr
ISBN	0140069208

The Harpole Report is the third novel by J. L. Carr, published in 1972. The novel tells the story mostly in the form of a school log book kept by George Harpole, temporary Head Teacher of the Church of England primary school of "Tampling St. Nicholas". Like all of Carr's novels, it is grounded in personal...

Author	Henry MacKenzie
ISBN	0192840320

Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series of episodes demonstrating his benevolence in an uncaring...

Author	Eliza Fowler Haywood
ISBN	1551113678

Panting and misspelled, Love in Excess is easy to roll your eyes at. But I think it deserves more. It was a blockbuster smash when it was published in 1720, as popular as Robinson Crusoe. It influenced Samuel Richardson and it's much more fun than his work. It was written by a woman and shows women who have...

Author	Karl Philipp Moritz
ISBN	0140446095

Well received in its own day and all but forgotten in the last century, Anton Reiser (1785) has regained in our times the popular attention it richly merits. Subtitled a "psychological novel" by its author, who also called it a biography, the work is actually a highly authentic autobiography. The work...

Author

Alexander Pope

Rich with hilarious episodes, Scriblerus is an ingenious satire of false learning and bad taste that has much to say to the pseudo-intellectual world of today. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly...

Author	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN	0874518253

An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral...

Author	Giacomo Leopardi
ISBN	0374235031

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways....

Author	Pierre de Marivaux
ISBN	2035881080

Dans un royaume imaginaire, deux villageois, Arlequin et Silvia, s'aiment d'un amour si profond que rien ni personne ne semble pouvoir les séparer...
Mais un jour, le Prince, en simple tenue d'officier du palais, rencontre Silvia et n'a dès lors plus qu'une seule idée en tête : l'épouser....

Author

Alain-René Le Sage

Gils Blas recounts the education and swashbuckling adventures of an adaptable young valet as he progresses from one master to the next, making his way from naive youth to cunning servant to landed proprietor and nobleman--with a stint in jail, bereavements, and fits of remorse along the way. Finally,...

Author

Caryl Brahms

"Warning to Scholars: This book is fundamentally unsound." Master Will Shakespeare and his struggles to finish his new play are at the center of this classic 1941 satire of Elizabethan England, said by many to be the inspiration behind the recent film Shakespeare in Love. Joining Master Will in Brahms...

Author	Cyrano de Bergerac
ISBN	2080702327

Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person. He wrote poetry, plays, and books, as well as being the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's best known work, the play titled Cyrano de Bergerac.

In the fascinating introduction to A Voyage To The Moon, we learn more about Cyrano: he did serve in the Guards (an...