56 títulos para "Progres Et Declin Sa"

Mumu (Bilingual Annotated Edition)

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Turgenev wrote Mumu with such vivid images and reflectionsof the state of the tsarist Russia that this piece together with hisother stories was credited with having influenced public opinionin favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev was the firstof the great Russian novelists to win fam...

A Child's History of England

Dickens, Charles

Dickens wrote this book for his own children trying to cultivate interest in both history and literature. A Child's History was included in the curricula of British schoolchildren for more than a hundred years, well into the 20th century.

The Prince

Machiavelli, Niccolò

The Prince is one of the first works of political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. Written by by the Italian diplomat, historian andpolitical theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, the treatise is the most remembered of his works and the one most...

The Great Learning

Confucius

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness...

Pericles

Shakespeare, William

The play opens in the court of Antiochus, king of Antioch, who has offered the hand of his beautiful daughter to any man who answers his riddle; but those who fail shall die. Pericles, the young Prince of Tyre in Phoenicia (Lebanon), hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus...

The Man Who Was Thursday

Chesterton, G.K.

Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the esse...

The Analects

Confucius

Confucius believed that the welfare of a country depended on the moral cultivation of its people, beginning from the nation's leadership. He believed that individuals could begin to cultivate an all-encompassing sense of virtue through ren, and that the most basic step to cultivating ren was dev...

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Swatmarama, Yogi

Hatha Yoga PradipikaHatha Yoga Pradipika is among the most influential surviving texts on hatha yoga. The text describes asanas, purifying practices, shatkarma, mudras, finger and hand positions, bandhas, locks, and pranayama, breath exercises. The book explains the purpose of Hatha Yoga, the awaken...

Julius Caesar

Shakespeare, William

A tragedy by William Shakespeare, one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history. The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marrullus, di...

The Star

Wells, H.G.

The Star by H. G. WellsIt was on the first day of the New Year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy had already called attentio...

The Doctrine of the Mean

Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean is a text rich with symbolism and guidance to perfecting oneself. The person who follows the mean is on a path of duty and must never leave it. A superior person is cautious, a gentle teacher and shows no contempt for his or her inferiors.Confucius was a Chinese teacher, edi...

Vanity Fair

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Vanity Fair is one of the most distinguished works written by William Makepeace Thackeray. The novel satirises whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also features Thackeray's most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The novel is considered a classic of E...