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The Seagull is a play by Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev.

The Book of Documents (Shujing) or Classic of History, also known as the Shangshu, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over 2,000 years. It is traditionally attributed to Confucius although it is more likely to be a composite work. It is reproduced here in its entirety in large, clear characters.

"Mother" - was written in 1906 by Maxim Gorky while traveling in the United States. The story reflected the ideas of "god-building" literary evangelism. Gorky used biblical images and compares them with the contemporary figures in the socialist struggle.

Jan Francois Elias Celliers, almost universally known as Jan F.E. Celliers (12 January 1865 - 1 June 1940) was an Afrikaans-language poet, essayist, dramatist and reviewer.Celliers was one of the three outstanding Afrikaans-language poets who wrote in the immediate wake of the Second Boer War; together with Totius and C. Louis Leipoldt, Celliers' youthful poetry writes of the devastation of the war in the youthful language of Afrikaans. His best poems appear in the collection Die Vlakte en ander gedigte ("The Plains and Other Poems).

Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad Farabi (also known in the West as Alpharabius) (c. 872 in Farab - between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned scientist and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age. He was also a cosmologist, logician, and musician. Through his commentaries and treatises, Al-Farabi became well known among medieval Muslim intellectuals as "The Second Teacher," that is, the successor to Aristotle, "The First Teacher." This volume contains the complete texts of two fo his famous treatises - Risala Al-Huruf (Book of Letters) and Tahsil Al-Saida (The Attainment of Happiness).

Judita is one of the most important Croatian literary works, an epic poem written by the "father of Croatian literature" Marko Marulic. Marulic's Judith has none of the decorative epithets typical of folk epics. Rather it is an epic poem notable for the Humanistic treatment of the subject and the author's Petrarchan descriptions of Judith's beauty. Thematically, the Judita deals with the story of the widow Judith who by her heroic act-the alleged treason, seduction and the murder of Assyrian general Holofernes-saves the city of Bethulia. It was no accident that Marulic chose the story of the Biblical Judith for literary treatment. The plot would seem to have contemporary parallels-a homeland invaded by foreigners, as the Balkans were being swept by the "eastern dragon"-the Ottoman Turks. This volume also contains two of Marulic's other famous poems - Suzana and Molitva suprotiva Turkom.

Szigeti veszedelem recounts in epic fashion the Battle of Szigetvár, in which a vastly outnumbered Croatian-Hungarian army tried to resist a Turkish invasion. The battle concluded when Captain Zrínyi's forces, having been greatly depleted, left the fortress walls in a famous onslaught. Approximately four hundred troops forayed into the Turkish camp. The epic concludes with Zrínyi killing Sultan Suleiman I, before being gunned down by janissaries. Being in the epic tradition, specifically modeled on the Iliad, it opens with an invocation of a muse (in this case, the Virgin Mary), and often features supernatural elements.

The Mountain Wreath is a heroic poem in the form of folk drama by Petar II Petrovic Njegos. It was written at the high of the Serbian romantic movement and is now considered to be the Serbian national epic. Njegos manages to weave all of Montenegrin history into this exquisite work. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile is a classic travelogue by the British Army officer John Hanning Speke. Speke undertook three exploratory expeditions to Africa but he is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and the discovery and naming of Lake Victoria. Despite being temporarily blinded and deafened, he continued his journey and returned with this memoir which describes parts of sub-Saharan Africa which had never been seen before by Europeans.

Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern historiography, sociology and economics. He is best known for his book The Muqaddimah. The book influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians who used the theories in the book to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. 19th-century European scholars also acknowledged the significance of the book and considered Ibn Khaldun as one of the greatest philosophers to come out of the Muslim world. This volume includes his fascinating autobiogrpahy covering his legendary travels.

The original Ukrainian text of the first UKrainian novel "Chorna Rada" (Black Raid) which tells the story of a series of Cossacks raids on a series of Ukrainian towns in 1663.

Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great epic poem in European literature. The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812, at a time in history, when Poland-Lithuania had already been divided between the armies of Russia, Prussia, and Austria and erased from the political map of Europe. Pan Tadeusz recounts the story of two feuding noble families, and the love between Tadeusz Soplica of one family, and Zosia of the other. Another sub-plot involves a spontaneous revolt of the local inhabitants against the occupying Russian garrison.

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. This volume contains three of his most famous works: Fröken Julie (1888), Fadren (1887) and Ett drömspel (1907).

Lacplesis is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. Lacplesis is regarded as the Latvian national epic. The poem recounts the life of the legendary hero Lacplesis, chosen by the gods to become a hero of his people. His name means "Bear-slayer," because as a young man, living as the adopted son of the Lord of Lielvarde, he kills a bear by ripping its jaws apart with his hands. At the castle of Lord Aizkrauklis, he spies on the activities of the witch Spidola (Spidala), who is under the control of the Devil, and the holy man Kangars, who is in reality a traitor plotting to replace the old gods with Christianity. Spidola tries to drown Lacplesis by throwing him into the whirlpool of Staburags in the Daugava, but he is rescued by the goddess Staburadze and taken to her underwater crystal castle. There Lacplesis meets and falls in love with the maiden Laimdota. Shortly afterwards, Lacplesis becomes friends with another hero, Koknesis ("Wood-bearer"), and they study together at the Castle of Burtnieks, Laimdota's father. Kangars provokes a war with the Estonians, and Lacplesis sets out to fight the giant Kalapuisis (Estonian: Kalevipoeg (the "Kalapuisis" name is derived from kalapoiss), probably refers to the hero of the Estonian epic poem Kalevipoeg), to win the hand of Laimdota. He defeats the giant, and the two make peace and decide to join forces to fight their common enemy, the German missionaries, led by the priest Dietrich (Ditrihs). Lacplesis performs another heroic deed by spending the night in a sunken castle, breaking the curse and allowing the castle to rise into the air again. Laimdota and Lacplesis are engaged. In the following episodes, Laimdota reads from the old books about the Creation and ancient Latvian teachings.

Verk Hayastani - Wounds of Armenia is a 1841 historical novel by Khachatur Abovian. Written in the Araratian (Yerevan) dialect, it was Abovian's debut novel, the first Armenian novel and the first modern Eastern Armenian literary work. The novel recounts an incident which happened in his hometown Kanaker during the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828. A young Armenian girl named Takhuni is kidnapped by soldiers of Hossein Khan Sardar, the head of the Persian political entity around Yerevan. Aghasi, who is the main hero, kills the Sardar's men and saves her. The Persian governor's brother Hassan decides to punish Aghasi and thus destroys a number of Armenian towns.

Os Lusíadas is a Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões. It is written in Homeric fashion and focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much in the way as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, as well as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. It was first printed in 1572, three years after the author returned from the Indies.The poem consists of ten cantos written in the decasyllabic ottava rima with the most important part, the arrival in India, at the beginning of Canto VII.

The Good Soldier Svejk is the abbreviated title of an unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hasek. The novel is set during World War I in Austria-Hungary, a multi-ethnic empire full of long-standing tensions. Fifteen million people died in the War, one million of them Austro-Hungarian soldiers of whom around 140,000 were Czechs. Jaroslav Hasek participated in this conflict and examined it in The Good Soldier Svejk. Many of the situations and characters seem to have been inspired, at least in part, by Hasek's service in the 91st Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army. The novel also deals with broader anti-war themes: essentially a series of absurdly comic episodes, it explores both the pointlessness and futility of conflict in general and of military discipline, Austrian military discipline, in particular. Many of its characters, especially the Czechs, are participating in a conflict they do not understand on behalf of a country to which they have no loyalty. The character of Josef Svejk is a development of this theme. Through possibly-feigned idiocy or incompetence he repeatedly manages to frustrate military authority and expose its stupidity in a form of passive resistance: the reader is left unclear, however, as to whether Svejk is genuinely incompetent, or acting quite deliberately with dumb insolence. These absurd events reach a climax when Svejk, wearing a Russian uniform, is mistakenly taken prisoner by his own troops.

Synnøve Solbakken er en bondefortelling av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, utgitt i 1857. Den regnes som hans debut.Boka handler om Torbjørns kamp for å få Synnøve Solbakken, hans reise fra skyggesiden til solsiden. Synnøve er også forelsket i Torbjørn, men hennes foreldre, først og fremst moren, syns ikke at Torbjørn er god nok for henne. Til slutt beviser Torbjørn at han har forandret seg ved å tilgi en mann som hadde knivstukket ham, så han nesten døde. Fortellingen slutter med at Torbjørn endelig står på Solbakken og ser over på Granliden.

Az arany ember, or The Man with the Golden Touch is Mor Jokai's 1872 magnus opus. It is the epic Hungarian novel which brings together the worlds of romance and reality. It has been translated in dozens of languages and been filmed on numerous occasions.

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. "Quo vadis Domine" is Latin for "Where are you going, Lord?" and alludes to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says "I am going back to be crucified again," which makes Peter go back to Rome and accept martyrdom. The novel Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Ligia (or Lygia), and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero around AD 64. Sienkiewicz studied the Roman Empire extensively prior to writing the novel, with the aim of getting historical details correct. As such, several historical figures appear in the book. As a whole, the novel carries an outspoken pro-Christian message. Published in installments in three Polish dailies in 1895, it came out in book form in 1896 and has since been translated into more than 50 languages. This novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in 1905.

Ludzie bezdomni is a novel written by Stefan Zeromski which was first published in 1900. It deals with the love story between the young doctor Judym and Joanna Podborska set against the harsh realities of contemporary peasant life.

Chunqiu Zuo Zhuan, the Chronicle of Zuo, is among the earliest Chinese works of narrative history, covering the period from 722 to 468 BC. It is one of the most important sources for understanding the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. Together with the Gongyang Zhuan and Guliang Zhuan, the work forms one of the surviving Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals. This volume includes both the orginal text from the annals and the complete commentary.

The I Ching is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system and it is still widely used for this purpose. Traditionally, the I Ching and its hexagrams were thought to pre-date recorded history, and based on traditional Chinese accounts, its origins trace back to the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BCE. Some consider the I Ching the oldest extant book of divination, dating from 1,000 BCE and before. The standard text reproduced here is based on Fei Zhi's text which survived the book-burning of the Qin.

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605) during the Time of Troubles, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605 to 1606). The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the "dramatic chronicle" Boris Godunov by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State.

*Amazon does not support all the Lithuanian letters - notabley "z with a hook" "e with a dot." The book itself DOES contain these letters.* Born to impoverished gentry, Zemaite became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. She wrote about the peasants and their way of life in a vernacular that closely resembled the language spoken by them - lively and rich in vocabulary. Her works are usually dark as she depicts poverty, materialism, and arguments within a family. The author paints natural images of everyday life with petty conflicts, lively conversations, impoverished surroundings, and beautiful nature. This volume includes some of her most famous stories including: Marti, Sutkai, and Petras Keumelis.

The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem by Ovid and it is considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. It has become one of the most influential works in Western culture and has inspired such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante and Boccaccio. Although Ovid's reputation faded after the Renaissance, towards the end of the twentieth century there was a resurgence of interest in his work; today, the Metamorphoses continues to inspire and be retold through various media.

Anabasis is the most famous work, in seven books, of the Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Though Cyrus' mixed army fought to a tactical victory at Cunaxa in Babylon (401 BC), Cyrus was killed in the battle and the expedition was rendered a failure. Stranded deep in enemy territory, Xenophon, who was one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-filled mountain passes towards the Black Sea and the comparative security of its Greek shoreline cities. Now abandoned in northern Mesopotamia, without supplies other than what they could obtain by force or diplomacy, the 10,000 had to fight their way northwards through Corduene and Armenia, making ad hoc decisions about their leadership, tactics, provender and destiny, while the King's army and hostile natives constantly barred their way and attacked their flanks. Ultimately this "marching republic" managed to reach the shores of the Black Sea at Trabzon, a destination they greeted with their famous cry of joyous exultation on the mountain of Theches (now Madur) in Surmene: "thalassa, thalassa" as this meant that they were at last among Greek cities. But it was not the end of their journey, which included a period fighting for Seuthes II of Thrace, and ended with their recruitment into the army of the Spartan general Thibron. Xenophon's account of the exploit resounded through Greece, where, two generations later, some surmise, it may have inspired Philip of Macedon to believe that a lean and disciplined Hellene army might be relied upon to defeat a Persian army many times its size. Besides military history, the Anabasis has found use as a tool for the teaching of classical philosophy; the principles of leadership and government exhibited by the army can be seen as exemplifying Socratic philosophy. Traditionally Anabasis is one of the first unabridged texts studied by students of classical Greek because of its clear and unadorned style; similar to Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico for Latin students.

Hisa Marije Pomocnice (The Ward of Mary Help of Christians) is a novel by the Slovenian author Ivan Cankar. It was first published in 1904. It was translated into English in 1968 (published in 1976) by Henry Leeming as The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy.

Brand is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm on 24 March 1867. Since its very first performance it has provoked much discussion and original thought.Brand is a priest who wants to take consequence of his choices, and is therefore deeply bound to doing the "right thing". He believes primarily in the will of man, and lives by the device "all or nothing". To make compromises is therefore difficult, or by his moral standards questionable at best. Brand is arguably a young idealist with a main purpose: to save the world, or at least Man's soul. His visions are great, but his judgement of others may seem harsh and unfair.

H. C. Andersen's stories- called eventyr, or "fairy -tales"- express themes that transcend age and nationality. They have been translated into more than 125 languages and have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness. They remain readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.Here a selection of Andersen's original Danish tales are presented side-by-side with their English translations. The stories are: The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Matchstick Girl, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier