By Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll is among the world's best-loved writers. His immortal Wonderland and pleasant nonsense verses have enchanted generations of youngsters and adults alike. The wit and mind's eye, the knowledge, feel of absurdity and sheer enjoyable which fill his books shine simply as sincerely from the numerous letters he wrote. '...each is a miniature Wonderland...They show a really pleasant man...the blend of severe goodness and unselfishness with a magic, nonsense wit is unique'. The Scotsman '...a extraordinary selection of pleasant and enjoyable letters reflecting all that was once embraced in that awesome character...all his attraction, artistic enjoyable, knowledge, generosity, kindliness and artistic mind'. Walter Tyson, Oxford instances

In easy, enchanting prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a trip either geographic and religious. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an excursion with the League, a mystery society whose contributors comprise Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The members traverse either area and time, encountering Noah's Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims' final vacation spot is the East, the "Home of the Light," the place they look forward to finding religious renewal. but the concord that governed on the outset of the journey quickly degenerates into open clash. each one traveller reveals the remainder of the crowd insupportable and heads off in his personal path, with H.H. bitterly blaming the others for the failure of the adventure. it's only lengthy after the journey, whereas poring over documents within the League data, that H.H. discovers his personal position within the dissolution of the gang, and the ominous value of the adventure itself.

By Procopius Procopius

Translated by means of H. B. Dewing

By Albert Camus

Throughout the tale of a typical guy unwittingly drawn right into a mindless homicide on an Algerian seashore, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of guy confronted with the absurd." First released in 1946; now in a brand new translation by way of Matthew Ward.

By Elizabeth Gaskell

‘O Jem, her father won’t take heed to me, and it’s you need to store Mary! You’re like a brother to her’

Mary Barton, the daughter of disenchanted exchange unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson within the desire of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner’s son, and creating a higher lifestyles for herself and her father. but if Henry is shot down on the street and Jem turns into the most suspect, Mary reveals herself painfully torn among the 2 males. via Mary’s challenge, and the relocating portrayal of her father, the embittered and brave activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the category divides of the ‘hungry forties’ as own tragedy. In its social and political environment, it appears in the direction of Elizabeth Gaskell’s nice novels of the economic revolution, specifically North and South.

In his creation Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel as a pioneering publication that made public the nice department among wealthy and negative – a subject matter that encouraged a lot of her best work.

By Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South is an excellent mix of social touch upon the dramatic adjustments in society caused by way of the economic revolution and a compelling love tale. Written from the author's first-hand adventure, the radical follows the tale of Margaret desire, the younger heroine, in her circulate from the tranquil environment in rural southern England to the uncooked and turbulent northern city of Milton. Margaret takes an speedy dislike to her new domestic and its humans. She hates the airborne dirt and dust, noise and shortage of civilisation. Her distaste extends to good-looking and charismatic cotton mill proprietor John Thornton whom she believes epitomises every thing disagreeable in regards to the North. even if, as Margaret progressively starts off to settle in Milton, she learns in regards to the poverty and office struggles. As occasions conspire to throw Margaret and Thornton jointly, the 2 lively characters need to triumph over their repressed actual charm for each other and triumph over prejudices of sophistication and situation. the fervour and the historical past embedded during this narrative is as beautiful and engrossing at the present time as whilst it used to be first published.

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By Roy Chapman Andrews

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By Sebastian Balfour

First released in 1990 and now up-to-date and multiplied, this research is greater than a private biography: really, it assesses Castro's occupation from his upward thrust to energy within the drama of the Cuban Revolution during the tough years of independence to (in this revised textual content) its obvious twilight now. Cool yet no longer unsympathetic, it avoids the simplifications of right-wing denunciation and left-wing hagiography, and the second one variation reinforces its declare to be the simplest brief creation to this debatable and charismatic determine at the moment to be had.