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The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly centres on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage.

Al Quran Al Karim presented in clear, large typeface.

The complete ancient Greek text of the Iliad.

Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House) is, quite simply, the most performed play in history.It is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen which critically deals with the suffocating norms of a 19th century marriage. However the theme goes beyond this and is far more universal, namely how can each and every individual find out exactly who they are.Here Ibsen's original text is presented side-by-side with Robert Farquharson Sharp's translation.

The Recognition of Shakuntala is a well-known Sanskrit play by Kalidasa. It is considered to be the best of Kalidasa's works. Its date is uncertain, but Kalidasa is often placed in the period between the 1st century BCE and 4th century CE. Although Kalidasa makes some minor changes to the plot, the play elaborates upon an episode mentioned in the Mahabharata which tells the story of with Shakuntala, abandoned at birth by her parents, and reared in the secluded, sylvan hermitage of the sage Kanva.

The Bhagavad Gita, The Song of the Bhagavan, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. This scripture contains a conversation between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide Lord Krishna on a variety of theological and philosophical issues. Faced with a fratricidal war, a despondent Arjuna turns to his charioteer Krishna for counsel on the battlefield. Krishna, through the course of the Gita, imparts to Arjuna wisdom, the path to devotion, and the doctrine of selfless action. The Gita upholds the essence and the theological tradition of the Upanishads. However, unlike the rigorous monism of the mukhya, the earlier Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita also integrates dualism and theism. Numerous commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita with widely differing views on the essentials, beginning with Adi Sankara's commentary on the Gita in the eighth century CE and including Dnyaneshwari. Commentators see the setting of the Gita in a battlefield as an allegory for the ethical and moral struggles of the human life. The Bhagavad Gita's call for selfless action inspired many leaders of the Indian independence movement including Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who referred to the Gita as his "spiritual dictionary." (Source: Wikipedia)

Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House) is, quite simply, the most performed play in history.It is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen which critically deals with the suffocating norms of a 19th century marriage. However the theme goes beyond this and is far more universal, namely how can each and every individual find out exactly who they are.

Anna Karenina is considered by many as the perfect novel. An intense psychological study of the eponymous lead character is set against the vast expanse of Tolstoy's 19th Century Russia.

Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. Written in the Dano-Norwegian language, it is the most widely performed Norwegian play. Peer Gynt has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance.Peer Gynt was first performed in Christiania (now Oslo) on 24 February 1876, with original music composed by Edvard Grieg, which includes some of today's most recognized classical pieces, In the Hall of the Mountain King and Morning Mood.

Kalevipoeg is the Estonian national epic which are based folktales about the eponymous giant Kalevipoeg. These tales mainly interpret various natural objects and features as traces of Kalevipoeg's deeds and have similarities with national epics from neighbouring regions, especially the Finnish Kalevala In 1839, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann read a paper at the Learned Estonian Society about the legends of Kalevipoeg. He sketched the plot of a national romantic epic poem. In 1850 Kreutzwald started writing the poem, interpreting it as the reconstruction of an obsolete oral epic.

The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. The Kalevala played an instrumental role in the development of the Finnish national identity, the intensification of Finland's language strife and the growing sense of nationality that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917. The version most commonly known today was first published in 1849 and consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty songs and it is this version which is printed here.

Perhaps the best known of the Iclenadic Sagas - Egils Saga recounts the incredible life of Egill Skallagrímsson, an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. The story flows at a break-neck speed through every part of early Icelandic life and includes some of the most prized fragments of Old Norse poetry. The text printed here is the original Old Norse.

Rev St. John's Burmese Reader is a must for any student looking to progress beyond the basic is this challenging and fascinating language. This abridged version contains the advanced grammar notes, the readings from the Sudhammacari and the accompanying notes which constitute the Parts II of the original work. This book has been completely digitally remastered and the Burmese font used is large and clear.

La Fundamenta Krestomatio de la Lingvo Esperanto, unuafoje eldonita en 1903 de L. L. Zamenhof, estis frua kolektajxo de diversaj modelstilaj verkajxoj en Esperanto, kaj originala literaturo kaj tradukajxoj. En la Krestomatio aperas Esperanto-versio de la Fundamenta gramatiko.

Rainis was the pseudonym of Janis Plieksans (1865 - 1929), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include classic plays and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism. "Uguns un nakts" is a symbolist drama which calls for Latvian independence.

Lalka is the second of four major novels by the Polish writer Boleslaw Prus. It was composed for periodical serialization in 1887-89 and appeared in book form in 1890. The Doll has been regarded by some, including Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, as the greatest Polish novel. According to Prus biographer Zygmunt Szweykowski, it may be unique in 19th-century world literature as a comprehensive, compelling picture of an entire society. While The Doll takes its fortuitous title from a minor episode involving a stolen toy, readers commonly assume that it refers to the principal female character, the young aristocrat Izabela Lecka.

The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoyevsky's works; its subtitle "A Petersburg Poem" echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls.

Florante at Laura (full title: "The History of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania: Adapted from some 'historical pictures' or paintings that tell of what happened in early times in the Greek Empire, and were set to rhyme by one delighting in Tagalog verse") by Francisco Balagtas is considered as one of the masterpieces of Philippine literature. Florante at Laura is written as an awit; the word in its present usage means "song" but is a poetic form with the four lines per stanza and twelve syllables per line.

Canigó és un poema èpic de 1886 escrit per Jacint Verdaguer que constitueix un dels poemes clau de la Renaixença catalana. Aquest poema, que és un llibre, conté una descripció geogràfica dels Pirineus catalans que es desenvolupa a través de la figura mítica del Comte Tallaferro, un valent i ferotge lluitador contra els sarraïns. El mite està basat en el personatge històric Bernat Tallaferro.Aquesta història, en la que apareixen també elements mitològics, està situada al segle XI de l'edat mitjana, a l'època que els catalans patien invasions musulmanes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. This volume contains the original texts of some of his most famous short stories, including: Mr Prokharchin, An Honest Thief, A Christmas Tree and a Wedding, White Nights, A Nasty Story, The Crocodile, Bobok, A Gentle Creature, The Peasant Marey, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.

Poor Folk is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds. Contemporary critics lauded Poor Folk for its humanitarian themes. While Vissarion Belinsky dubbed the novel Russia's first "social novel" and Alexander Herzen called it a major socialist work, other critics detected parody and satire. The novel uses a complicated polyphony of voices from different perspectives and narrators.

Set in Lodz, Ziemia obiecana tells the story of three close friends and ruthless young industrialists: a Pole, a German, and a Jew struggling to build their own factory in the heartless world of the late 19th century labour exploitation. Reymont's novel vividly paints a portrait of the rapid industrialization of Lodz and its cruel effects on workers and mill owners. "For that land people were born. And it sucked everything in, crushed it in its powerful jaws, and chewed people and objects, the sky and the earth, in return giving useless millions to a handful of people, and hunger and hardship to the whole throng," he wrote.

Omar Khayyam was a Persian polymath, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. although best known in the West for his verse he is better known in his homeland as a man of science. Outside Iran and Persian speaking countries, Khayyam has had an impact on literature and societies through the translation of his works and popularization by other scholars. The greatest such impact was in English-speaking countries The most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald, who made Khayyam the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyam's quatrains. It is these verses which are included in this volume

The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. The original Sanskrit work, which some scholars believe was composed around the 3rd century BCE, is attributed to Vishnu Sharma. It is based on older oral traditions, including animal fables that are as old as we are able to imagine. It is certainly the most frequently translated literary product of India, and these stories are among the most widely known in the world.

Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah is a collection of some of the most famous Burmese folktales. Each of the stories offers an insight to the indigenous traditions of this complex and fascinating country.

María Rosalía Rita de Castro (1837 - 1885), was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros, she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement, known today as the Rexurdimento. Her poetry is marked by saudade, an almost ineffable combination of nostalgia, longing and melancholy.The date she published her first collection of poetry in Galician, Cantares gallegosin 1863, is commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas, an official holiday in Galicia.

The Classic of Poetry is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally said to have been compiled by Confucius, and has been studied and memorized by scholars in China and neighboring countries over two millennia. Since the Qing dynasty, its rhyme patterns have also been analysed in the study of Old Chinese phonology. The content of the Poetry can be divided into two main sections: the "Airs of the States," and the eulogies and hymns. The "Airs of the States" are shorter lyrics in simple language that are generally ancient folk songs; while the "Eulogies" section tend to be longer ritual or sacrificial songs, usually in the forms of courtly panegyrics and dynastic hymns.

Rudin was the first of Ivan Turgenev's novels, but already the topic of the superfluous man and his inability to act, which became a major theme of Turgenev's literary work, was explored. Similarly to Turgenev's other novels, the main conflict in Rudin was centred on a love story of the main character and a young, but intellectual and self-conscious woman who is contrasted with the main hero.Indeed, this type of female character became known in literary criticism as the "Turgenev maid."

Chanting is a key feature of many Buddhist practices, especially in the Theravada tradition in South-East Asia. This volume contains the Pali text of many chants for specific everyday use including to ward off illness or making an offering.

Reymont's last book, Bunt, was serialized 1922 and published in book form in 1924. It describes a revolt by animals which take over their farm in order to introduce "equality." The revolt quickly degenerates into abuse and bloody terror. The story was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and was banned 1945-1989 in communist Poland, along with George Orwell's similar novella, Animal Farm (published in Britain in 1945).