You are the architect of your own life: it is yours to make or to mar. By the power of thoughts, you are building; are you building aright? The power of thought, as Emerson says, is a spiritual powe……続きを見る
Every day is a new beginning and not a mere repetition of the previous day. Hence each day should be spent wisely and fruitfully. As today's life is becoming hectic and busy, we are prone to illness……続きを見る
Così parlò Zarathustra. Un libro per tutti e per nessuno (tedesco: Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen) è il titolo di un celebre libro del filosofo tedesco Friedrich Nietzsche, co……続きを見る
The Game of Life and How to Play It, published in 1925, teaches the philosophies of its author, Florence Scovel Shinn. The book holds that ignorance of, or carelessness with the application of vario……続きを見る
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Da……続きを見る
Reasoning is defined as: The act, process or art of exercising the faculty of reason ;the act or factdty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; reasoning power; disputation, ……続きを見る
Excerpt from Emerson's Essay on Compensation These thoughts on government, religion, and art alike, are colored by democracy. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself ……続きを見る
Este volume reúne 33 contos de Poe publicados por ordem cronológica: [1831] Metzengerstein [1832] Silêncio [1833] Um Manuscrito Encontrado numa Garrafa [1834] A Entrevista [1835] Berenice [1835] Mor……続きを見る
Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's fri……続きを見る
The Man That Was Used up is a short classic written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1839. The story follows an unnamed narrator who seeks out the famous war hero John A. B. C. Smith. He be……続きを見る
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer and poet. Despite being considered a political rebel, Gibran is still well read throughout the world and his works are considered inspirational. This col……続きを見る
"Mesmeric Revelation" is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1844, the tale is centered on mesmerist experiments. This edition also contains a long note on Poe's ……続きを見る
"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism take……続きを見る
"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its i……続きを見る
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1……続きを見る
Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on ……続きを見る
"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1925. It was the first story Lovecraft published in Weird Tales, an……続きを見る
Professor Lidenbrock ist einer der angesehensten Geologen der Welt. Der etwas kauzige Experte in Sachen Steine und Mineralien hat in einem alten Buch eine rätselhafte Nachricht gefunden, die einen W……続きを見る
La vita dell'autore fu lunga e tragica, nell'accezione più vera del termine, ossia nel senso che essa fu dominata da una profonda, segreta tensione: una vera tragedia dell'anima. Tolstoj stesso rite……続きを見る
L'opera, da molti considerata il suo primo capolavoro, fu nella sua prima edizione pesantemente rimaneggiata da Edward Garnett (a cui peraltro è dedicata) che ne cancellò un'ottantina di brani, circ……続きを見る
"The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, h……続きを見る
"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the s……続きを見る
The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale. The narrator then begins telling the story of his friend Toby Dammit. Da……続きを見る
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. A university student is forced, by hi……続きを見る
De hut van Oom Tom van Harriet Beecher Stowe is een van de bekendste boeken uit de canon van de Amerikaanse literatuur en een aanklacht tegen de slavernij. Het werd in 1852 gepubliceerd nadat het ee……続きを見る
On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middl……続きを見る
The Assignation is a short story with Gothic touches and a tragic ending. The story was published as The Visionary in January 1834 in Louis A. Godey's monthly magazine, Lady's Book. After Poe revise……続きを見る
Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most……続きを見る
Venus im Pelz ist eine Novelle (1870) von Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Es sollte der erste Teil eines sechsbändigen Zyklus zum Thema "Liebe" werden, der aber nie weitergeführt wurde. Er beschreibt dar……続きを見る
In the years since its publication in 1902, "As a Man Thinketh" has set thousands of men on the pathway to personal and financial growth. Now, in this unique rendition of James Allen's masterwork, y……続きを見る
