by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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"Anna Karenina", one of the most famous novels of Leo Tolstoy, begins to put the phrase: "All happy families are alike." This is a book about eternal values: about love, about faith, about family, about human dignity. This is an incredibly awesome novel from the greatest writer of the XIX century. As Dostoevsky expressed, “Anna Karenina” already in the times of contemporaries struck the readers with the depth of the human soul displayed in the book. A century ago, the book was translated into many world languages, and nowadays the novel is included in the golden fund of the world's literature....
Number of pages: ~ 476 pages
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by Robert Graves
The Feather Bed
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. The present book is a replication of a book originally published years before. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries...
Number of pages: ~ 32 pages
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by Leonardo Da Vinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
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  • Сlassic
  • 2010
  • Autor: Leonardo Da Vinci
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...
Number of pages: ~ 294 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.3/5

by Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
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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...
Number of pages: ~ 128 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.4/5

by James Joyce
Dubliners
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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...
Number of pages: ~ 160 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.3/5

by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
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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...
Number of pages: ~ 96 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.7/5

by Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
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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,...
Number of pages: ~ 256 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.1/5

by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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  • Сlassic
  • 1998
  • Autor: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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...
Number of pages: ~ 144 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.4/5

by Plato
The Republic
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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....
Number of pages: ~ 416 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.4

by Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
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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....
Number of pages: ~ 576 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.2