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The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. G. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret.

The Country of the Blind was written in the year 1911 by H. G. Wells. This book is one of the most popular novels of H. G. Wells, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books."The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati:"Sir--I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. * * * "Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." -- James Dickey * * * The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. --Wikipedia

The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry, who's arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes' help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles' curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this.The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer, is introduced by his crowning as Pope of Fools.Esméralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men but especially Quasimodo’s adopted father, Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his lust and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to get her. Quasimodo is caught and whipped and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Esméralda seeing his thirst, offers him water. It saves her, for she captures the heart of the hunchback.

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.

The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are 10 stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

The Man Who Would be King (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling chronicling the adventures of two British men who become kings in Kafiristan (now a province of Afghanistan).

The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.

The Pickwick Papers was written in the year 1832 by Charles Dickens. This book is one of the most popular novels of Charles Dickens, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps."

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily by servants, who pacify her as much as possible to keep her out of the way. Spoiled and with a temper, she is unaffectionate, angry, rude and obstinate. Later, there is a cholera epidemic which hits India and kills her mother, father and all the servants. She is discovered alone but alive after the house is empty. She is sent to Yorkshire, England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven at his home called Misselthwaite Manor.

The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).

Ha mindig is el akartad olvasni A csodák tanítását, de túl nehéznek találtad és túl vaskosnak az eredeti könyvet, imádni fogod a klasszikusnak ezt az egyszerű, de könnyen érthető átiratát, amely 365 napos lebontásban foglalja neked össze az eredeti művet. A csodák tanításának leckéi nagyon mélyek és megindítóak, ám az eredeti mű sokaknak nehezen emészthető formában tárja elénk ezt a felbecsülhetetlen értékű spirituális tudást. Most viszont a Pam Grout-nak, az E2, E3 és az Adj hálát és gazdagodj című sikerkönyvek szerzőjének köszönhetően megismerheted A csodák tanításának praktikus, könnyen alkalmazható változatát. A könyvben a következőket találod: szórakoztató és egyben elgondolkoztató napi leckéket, mint például: „A fejemben élő szószátyár átlényegítése" és „Az ego nem amigo". A csodák tanításában szereplő eredeti spirituális szöveg lényegi üzeneteit összefoglaló magyarázatokat - a mindennapi életedre vetítve. Ismétléseket, hogy a Tanítás leckéi tényleg rögzüljenek. Személyes történeteket, melyek megmosolyogtatóak és mégis mélységesen felkavaróak. Pam Grout egyedi módon ötvözi az örök igazságokat a pop kultúrával és a személyes anekdotákkal. Magával ragadó stílusú spirituális mű, mely meg fogja változtatni az életedet. Pam Grout a varázslat és a bűbáj frontvonalainak felfedezője. Írásai átsegítik a kétkedőket a spiritualitás oldalára. Statisztált már zombifilmben, írt már countrydalt, gyártott már tévésorozatot és társalgott már masai harcosokkal, török szultánokkal és Intivel, az ecuadori napistennel. Olyan oldalaknak ír könyveket és cikkeket, mint a CNN Travel, a Men's Journal, a The Huffington Post és a People Magazine. Olyan New York Times bestsellerek írója, mint az Adj hálát és gazdagodj, az E2 és az E3.

A kötet az angol és a magyar nyelvű változatot tartalmazza.

Grant Cardone fején találta a szöget: elárulja, hogyan érnek el az emberek sikert az élet bármely területén.” Brian Tracy A könyv olyan életfelfogást szeretne létrehívni, amely minden sikeres emberre jellemző. Célozzuk meg azt, ami tízszer magasabban van, mint ahol most vagyunk, és ha alatta is maradunk a várakozásnak, messzebbre jutunk, mint ha megőriztük volna életünk jelenlegi állapotát. Megtanít bennünket: hogyan valósítsunk meg korábban elérhetetlennek hitt célokat, hogyan tűzzük ki helyesen a céljainkat, és hogyan garantáljuk, hogy el is érjük őket, hogyan teremtsünk soha nem látott boldogságot és elégedettséget az életünkben, hogyan sarkalljuk magunkat a félelem erejének segítségével cselekvésre, hogyan szerezzünk meg mindent, amit csak akarunk, és ne kelljen kevesebbel beérnünk, hogyan győzzük le a versenytársakat, és hogyan legyünk a siker példaképei. A szárnyaló siker a hétköznapi erőfeszítés birodalmán túl létezik. Ha ilyen kimagasló sikert szeretnénk elérni, nem élhetjük úgy az életünket, mint bárki más, és nem nyugodhatunk bele a középszerűségbe. A siker a kötelességünk, feladatunk és felelősségünk, és ez a könyv lépésről lépésre ismertet meg minket azzal, hogyan teremtsünk rendkívüli sikert az életünkben. Megtanulhatjuk, mekkora erőfeszítés szükséges a garantált sikerhez, és biztosíthatjuk, hogy ezt a szintet egész életünkben megtartsuk. Az emberek többsége áhítozik a sikerre, és fantasztikus ötletei vannak, de elmarad az erőfeszítések tekintetében, amelyek ahhoz kellenek, hogy a megérdemelt kivételes szintre emelje az életét. A cselekvésnek négy szintje létezik, és álmaink valóra váltásához meg kell tanulnunk eljutni a negyedik szintre, a masszív erőbedobáshoz. A 10X eloszlatja félelmeinket, megnöveli az önmagunkba vetett hitünket, elsöpri a halogatást, és mindenen diadalmaskodó céltudattal ruház föl. Arra késztet, hogy különbözzünk minden más piaci szereplőtől, és ezt csak úgy érhetjük el, ha azt tesszük, amire más nem hajlandó. Ne gondolkozzunk többé alapszükségletekben, hanem célozzuk meg a bőséget, éspedig életünk minden területén.

Charlotte a nagyszülei házában nő fel, ahol pap nagyapjától és szigorú nagyanyjától kifogástalan nevelést kap: derék háziasszonyt faragnak belőle, megtanítják illendően viselkedni és társalogni. Ő azonban nem tartja sokra az efféle dolgokat, sokkal jobban szeret zongorázni, titokban szerelmes regényeket olvasni és messzi tájakról álmodozni. A kelet-frízföldi kisvárost, ahol egyetlen bizalmasa mozgássérült unokahúga, Klara, szürkének és unalmasnak találja. Nem számíthat azonban sok hozományra, ezért amikor a helyi gyarmatáru-kereskedés ifjú tulajdonosa, Christian Ohlsen megkéri a kezét, igent mond. Vesztére. Christian csapnivaló üzletembernek és megbízhatatlan férjnek bizonyul. Amikor a tönk szélére kerülnek, Charlotte rájön, hogy csak egy módon kezdhetnek új életet: ha álmai földjére, a varázslatos Afrikába szöknek. Nem is sejti, hogy ezzel kezdetét veszi élete nagy kalandja, amelynek során talán a titkos vágyai is beteljesülnek. A villa szerzőjének új romantikus kalandregénye a 19. és 20. század fordulójára repíti az olvasót, aki képzeletben bebarangolhatja Afrika távoli tájait a fenséges Kilimandzsáró hófödte csúcsaitól Zanzibár káprázatos szigetéig.