Mario and the Magician and Other Stories

Author	Arthur Machen
ISBN	1871592119

The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as...

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Aldous Huxley

The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds." With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in...

Author	René Descartes
ISBN	0872201929

Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...

Author	Colette
ISBN	2253011711

Lorsque débute leur vie commune, Alain et Camille sont deux amis d'enfance que tout en apparence rapproche mais que leurs secrètes rêveries divisent. " Mon mariage, reconnaît Alain, contente tout le monde et Camille, et il y a des moments où à me contente aussi, mais... " Ce qu'Alain aime en Camille,...

Author	Miguel Hernández
ISBN	8470397893

Not without power, the poems of Hernandez, who was basically a rural hick who became famed modernist poet pseudo-sophisticate within his short life, are a little banal. As tends to happen with poems that have a fixed, temporal appeal, usually in politics, as these seem to be, their beauty tends to stray...