Editorial: Delhi Open Book
The Pensées is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work.
A Yorkshire village, a post-girl on her round, and two men who want her — one of them a gentleman with a temper. Booth wrote the East Riding down as it was actually spoken, weather and dialect and all; the book was a great success in America in 1908 and has been quietly out of sight ever since. This edition adds fifty-six plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by George Clausen, Henry Herbert La Thangue, William Orpen and Philip de László.Ver libro
Enter the world of knights, castles, tournaments, and legendary medieval adventures. In Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott brings medieval England to life in one of the most influential historical novels ever written. Set during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, the story follows the brave knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe as he returns to England after fighting abroad. His return draws him into a world of political conflict, family rivalry, romance, religious tension, and struggles for power. Along the way, the novel introduces unforgettable characters including Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Rebecca, Rowena, and the ruthless Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Scott combines historical events with adventure and romance, creating a vivid portrait of medieval society. Tournaments, castles, battles, sieges, knights, and acts of courage provide the excitement, while themes of honor, loyalty, prejudice, love, and justice give the story lasting depth. First published in 1819, Ivanhoe played an important role in popularizing historical fiction and helped shape the modern image of the medieval adventure novel. For readers who enjoy historical fiction, medieval adventures, knight stories, chivalric romance, classic literature, castles, battles, and legendary heroes, Ivanhoe offers an unforgettable journey into the world of medieval England. Join Ivanhoe on a thrilling adventure of courage, honor, romance, and rivalry. Read Ivanhoe today and experience Walter Scott's timeless classic of medieval history and adventure.Ver libro
David Innes returns to the inner world with a prefabricated ship, gunpowder and a printing press, meaning to found an empire — and finds Dian gone and the reptile Mahars rebuilding theirs. Burroughs takes the sequel where the first book could not go: into the politics of a place with no night, where distance is unmeasurable and every journey is a gamble on direction. The empire gets built; the price is paid by everyone who follows him down. Sixty plates by painters including Adolph von Menzel and Vincent van Gogh carry the roads, mountains and night skies that map every gamble on direction in Burroughs's sunless world.Ver libro
Three novels of people who never marry - a priest, a spinster, a bachelor - and what happens to a life that is never claimed. Balzac grouped them himself and they are among the most unsparing things in the Human Comedy. This edition carries Katharine Prescott Wormeley's translation and a gallery of 59 plates bound with the text, including paintings by Honoré Daumier, Paul Gavarni and Joseph-François Swebach.Ver libro
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 1 - Six of the Best - Jack London - An Introduction 2 - Jack London - An Introduction 3 - An Odyssey of the North by Jack London 4 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 5 - A Piece of Steak by Jack London 6 - The White Silence by Jack London 7 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London 8 - In a Far Country by Jack LondonVer libro
An Egyptian household in the reign of Thutmose, a sacred cat killed by accident, and the flight that follows. Henty wrote more than a hundred boys' historical novels, each researched from the standard authorities, and taught the British Empire its history more thoroughly than any schoolmaster. This edition binds 42 plates of painting with the text, among them Roman capriccios and ruins by Panini, Amorosi and Paltronieri, alongside six illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.Ver libro
