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The Printed Book Its History, Illustration and Adornment, from the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS CHAPTER I. 14.. TO 1462 Origin of the Book—Engravers in relief—The St. Christopher of...

Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The novel is hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern,...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS BOOK I. THE DESERTS OF EUROPE AND ASIA:—THE LANDES, THE DUNES, AND THE STEPPES. I. THE DESERT IN FRANCE:—THE LANDES OF BRITTANY, II. THE LANDES OF GASCONY, III. THE DUNES, OR SAND-HILLS, IV....

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Book I First Adventure Concerning the Niebelungs Second Adventure Concerning Siegfried Third Adventure How Siegfried Came to Worms Fourth Adventure How Siegfried Fought with the Saxons Fifth Adventure How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild Sixth...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index The narrative is highly interesting as exhibiting the state of some of the West India Islands two hundred and fifty years ago, many of them being then uninhabited by Europeans; and of...

In a world where night-time activities are numerous and where new technologies keep us awake night and day, sleep is often diminished and neglected. However, a chronic lack of sleep bears long term consequences that can deteriorate your quality of life: decreased physical and intellectual performances,...

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary people experienced and accommodated the tumult of life in prewar Japan.  Azembo created enka songs...

The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and...

The Vikings at Helgeland is Henrik Ibsen's seventh play, written in 1857. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827 - 7 July 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubunden, the setting she later would use in her novels. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Illusions perdues is the name of two separate novels written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, one in 1837 and one in 1839.The first volume contains two stories, Les Deux poètes (The Two Poets) and Un Grand homme de province à Paris, 1re partie (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, Part 1). The...

Plato's dialogue on the nature language and words.