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    MOBY DICK

    Herman Melville

    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the twentieth century. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it «one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world», and «the greatest book of the sea ever written». «Call me Ishmael» is one of world literature's most famous opening sentences.

    The Collected Works of Samuel Butler

    Samuel Butler

    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 9222 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Odyssey • The Iliad • Erewhon; Or, Over the Range • The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography • The Way of All Flesh • Unconscious Memory • Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia • The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars • Lives of the Poets, Volume Samuel Johnson • Essays on Life, Art and Science • Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son • God the Known and God the Unknown • Life and Habit • Aspects of LiteratureJohn Middleton Murry • Evolution, Old & New • The Collection at Saint John's College, CambridgeHenry Festing Jones and A. T. Bartholomew • Cambridge Pieces • The Humour of and Other Essays • Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • The Fair Haven • Canterbury Pieces • A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification • Selections from Previous Works • etc.

    The Collected Works of Cook

    James Cook

    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 4778 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World • A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World • Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World • A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook by David Samwell • Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook by Andrew Kippis

    The Collected Works of William Blake

    Уильям Блейк

    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell • Poems of • Illustrations of The Book of Job •: A Critical EssayAlgernon Charles Swinburne • The Tiger • Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience • The Voice of the Ancient Bard

    The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde

    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 5680 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • An Ideal Husband • The Happy Prince, and Other Tales • The Canterville Ghost • De Profundis • A Woman of No Importance • Lady Windermere's Fan • The Happy Prince and Other Tales • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Ballad of Reading Gaol • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Salomé • Intentions • The Soul of Man under Socialism • Essays and Lectures • Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol • A House of Pomegranates • Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories • Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man • The Importance of Being Earnest • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Reviews • Vera; Or, The Nihilists • The Happy Prince and Other Tales • Selected Poems of • Poèmes (Französisch) • A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies • The Duchess of Padua • Impressions of America • Miscellanies • The Canterville Ghost • Shorter Prose Pieces • Charmides, and Other Poems • De Profundis • For Love of the King • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane • Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life •.etc.

    The Collected Works of Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf

    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Voyage Out • Night and Day • Jacob's Room • Monday or Tuesday

    Blaschka (HD-Version)

    Heidi Koch

    They are transparent artworks of unique fragile beauty and withal highest scientific precision: the filigree glass models from astonishing sea creatures – created over 100 years ago by glass blowers Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka in Dresden, Germany. The prizewinning photographers Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch took brilliant close shots of the last few retained objects.

    Blaschka

    Heidi Koch

    They are transparent artworks of unique fragile beauty and withal highest scientific precision: the filigree glass models from astonishing sea creatures – created over 100 years ago by glass blowers Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka in Dresden, Germany. The prizewinning photographers Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch took brilliant close shots of the last few retained objects.

    Nation Building in Contested States

    Viktoria Potapkina

    This study provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is presented, collected in English in a single work for the first time. Viktoria Potapkina presents an analysis and comparison of contested states from an internal perspective, looking at the processes that help legitimize such entities from within and creating support for their ongoing existence.
    The work strives to fill a gap in the literature on contested states, as well as to contribute to the overall understanding of nation and state building, state formation, and sovereignty. It provides a new way of looking at the puzzle that contested states are, offering insight into why they still exist in their current forms.

    High Treason and Low Comedy: Egon Erwin Kisch’s Cabaret Plays as History and Art

    Robert T. O’Keeffe

    High Treason and Low Comedy is the first in-depth treatment in English of E. E. Kisch’s work as a playwright, a phase of his life to which he devoted considerable effort during the years 1920–1925.The translations of his two most successful works for the cabaret stages of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia form the basis of discussions that fit them into several intersecting streams: biographical, historical, and cultural. The plays are Die Hetzjagd, which describes the last day on earth of the infamous traitor, Colonel Alfred Redl, and Die Himmelfahrt der Tonka Šibenice (Galgentoni), which presents the comical, coarse, and, at times, pathetic efforts of a Prague prostitute to argue her way into heaven. The plays are a portal into the world of Kisch’s youth as an enterprising journalist and into his thinking and writing just before he became “the raging reporter” and the star of international reportage. While they reflect the Prague milieu of his youth during the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they also illustrate Kisch’s lifelong critical attitude toward the conservative authorities of society, their derelictions of duty, and their indifference to the welfare of the common man and woman.
    The book also examines the long afterlife of both of these stories as they were re-created by artists in stage, film, novelistic, and television adaptations, illustrating the theme of what happens when historical materials are transformed into art.