This edition includes the complete notebooks (volume one and two). Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his...

The book written by Lebanese-American poet and writer Gibran Khalil Gibran, consisting of 26 prose poems written in English. It was published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. "The Prophet", the most famous writer's work, translated for more than 40 different languages ​​and never stopped to be published. “The Prophet” of Almustafa, who lived in the city of Orfalese, foreign to him, is 12 years old and he's going to board a ship that takes him home. He was stopped by a group of local residents who ask him questions on some philosophical topics. The book is divided into chapters on the main...

Henry James’s novels and classics of American and world literature, author of the novels American, Woman Portrait, Wings of the Dove, Ambassadors, etc., are included in the book into the world of psychological mysteries, superstitious expectations, mysterious, terrible and sometimes unexplained events. The novel entitled The Turning of the Screw, which gave the title to the collection, became a kind of "calling card" of James the Innovator and won numerous screen adaptations. The original interpretation of the motive of meeting with ghosts brought the story closer to the parapsychological...

Henry James’s novels and classics of American and world literature, author of the novels American, Woman Portrait, Wings of the Dove, Ambassadors, etc., are included in the book into the world of psychological mysteries, superstitious expectations, mysterious, terrible and sometimes unexplained events. The novel entitled The Turning of the Screw, which gave the title to the collection, became a kind of "calling card" of James the Innovator and won numerous screen adaptations. The original interpretation of the motive of meeting with ghosts brought the story closer to the parapsychological...

Leaves of Grass - a poetry collection written by the American poet Walt Whitman. Despite the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman continued to write a collection throughout his life, and before his death managed to release several editions. The collection dedicated to the ascent and admiration of feelings in times when such straightforwardness was considered immoral. When most of the poetry of that time was focused on symbolism and allegories on spiritual and religious themes, the Leaves of Grass (especially the first edition) praised the physical and material world. However,...

Ludwig Wittgenstein - British philosopher of Austrian origin, one of the most original thinkers of the European philosophy of the twentieth century, the creator of the theory of constructing an artificial "ideal" language based on the language of mathematical logic. The text of the Logical and Philosophical Treatise can hardly be described as voluminous, but it is difficult to overestimate its significance for all subsequent European philosophy, and brevity in this case only tells how concisely, accurately and precisely Wittgenstein formulated his thought. Seven short abstracts and a little...

The book is a real historical jewel, as it is written by great Greek ancient philosopher Plato, who high understanding of the types of social structures, which are similar to our modern ones. The basis of the book is a dialogue in which questions are raised about the ideal state system. At least 5 different types of political system will be considered, pointing out the bad and positive sides of each, with a detailed description of how they can work. And in the end, Plato will be given an opinion on how he sees the ideal state for the fair and high-quality life of its inhabitants....

The author of the book is well known English political philosopher - Thomas Hobbes. In the book, Thomas raises problems of state or national building. In 17 century, the book was banned in England and was intended to be burned. Mainly in the book opens the biblical monster - Leviathan, цho is a type of god that degrades people. And in this situation, they will have to join and submit themselves to condone the so-called state, where all should obey a single duty. Regulation of relations between people - the main task of the state....

Completed only a few months before the author's death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky's largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, jealousy, sorrow, and humor ― the book is also infused with moral issues and the issue of collective guilt. As in many of Dostoyevsky's novels, the plot centers on a murder. Three brothers, different in character but bound by their ancestry, are drawn into the crime's vortex: Dmitri, a young officer utterly unrestrained in love, hatred, jealousy, and generosity; Ivan, an intellectual capable of...

One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman — a pawnbroker whom he regards as "stupid, ailing, greedy…good...

Comprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dante's Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven. Divine Comedy began as a project in 1308 and ended in 1320, the year before Dante's death. Told in first person, Dante follows the poet Virgil through the rings of hell and purgatory. The Divine Comedy is a highly allegorical text and renowned as one of the most influential Italian masterpieces in literature. This classic translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the...

Pages of this book reveal in front of you a breath taking collection of adventure stories of an English doctor and traveler Lemuel Gulliver which was made up by Jonathan Swift. Sailing off from his home town Gulliver did not think how would finish his regular business travel. At the beginning this uncomplicated voyage took a vertiginous whirl when a shipwreck happened near a shore of few ever see land…...

Aldzheron and John, two young friends, decide to introduce themselves as Ernest brothers and thus entice ladies (the reason for this is some superstition or prejudice, that Ernest is the only name for a serious man with serious motives). But as they realize that they cannot always fool girls’ heads, they decide to take a desperate step – to be baptized in order to legitimize their "serious" names......

The plot of "The Count of Monte Cristo" was extracted by Alexandre Dumas from the archives of Paris police. As a result, under the pen of the brilliant master of historical adventure genre the true life of Francois Picot turned into a fascinating story of Edmond Dantes, a prisoner of the Chateau d'If. After a brave escape from the Chateau, he returns to his hometown to do justice – that is to payback to those who destroyed his life earlier. A thick novel that do not let a reader go until the last page, "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a classic novel that is really worth re-reading....

"Mister Utterson, the notary, whose stern face was never lit up with a smile, was a reserved man of few words, socially awkward, lean, dusty, and boring - and yet he was very attractive. In his friends’ circle, especially when drinking the wine that he enjoyed, his eyes started to radiate the soft light of compassion that has no access to his speech. Instead, his compassion spoke not only in these silent places of afternoon complacency but also in his deeds, even more often and louder there. He was strict with himself: when eating dinner alone he drank gin daunting his lust for fine wines,...