Shandonpress: 9 books

ShandonPress is proud to present the complete 'Little Women' trilogy by Louisa May Alcott. An active table of contents will help you navigate through the different parts of this ebook. Illustrations from 1868 edition will make you reading experience even more pleasant. Contents: -...

ShandonPress proudly presents the Orientalism compilation which regroups major orientalist works (both paintings and writings). Orientalism is a term used by scholars in art history, literary, geography, and cultural studies for the depiction of Eastern, that is "Oriental" cultures,...

La Bhagavad-Gītā est la partie centrale du poème épique Mahābhārata. Ce texte est un des écrits fondamentaux de l'Hindouisme souvent considéré comme un « abrégé de toute la doctrine védique ».

‘The Christening’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. It was the ninth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he...

The Charlie Chan series #1 The novel, which takes place in 1920s Hawaiʻi, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished...

Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book, which was written in 1871, is still regarded...

This is the last collection of short stories written by the witty British author, Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen names "Saki" or "H. H. Munro", compiled posthumously by his friend, Rothay Reynolds. The title story is a humorous tale of trying to indoctrinate...

The Secretary of War of the United States receives a letter sent to his and all other nations, declaring that war has too long devastated the earth and the time has come for peace. It orders them to destroy their weapons of warfare and disband their militaries. The letter ends: "One year from...

Les Vénitiens en liesse acclament Roland Candiano, le fils du doge, qui s'apprête à fêter ses fiançailles avec Léonore, descendante de l'illustre famille Dandolo - et pourtant le doge et la dogaresse tremblent dans leur palais: en ce début du XVIe siècle, il est mortel à Venise de porter...