King Harald's Saga

Snorri Sturluson

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on Englan... Lees meer

Spring Torrents

Ivan Turgenev

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There he encounters the beautiful Gemma... Lees meer

The Book of the Courtier

Baldesar Castiglione

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• 'The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action' In The Book of the Courtier... Lees meer

The Princess Casamassima

Henry James

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Henry James conceived the character of Hyacinth Robinson--his 'little presumptuous adventurer with his combination of intrinsic fineness and fortuitou... Lees meer

The Spoils of Poynton

Henry James

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, ... Lees meer

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

Henry James

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other--a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, c... Lees meer

On Painting

Leon Battista Alberti

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435... Lees meer

The Barber of Seville and the Marriage of Figaro

Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet F... Lees meer

Manon Lescaut

Antoine François Prévost

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• A devastating depiction of obsessive love and a haunting portrait of a captivating but dangerous woman When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets ... Lees meer

Buddhist Scriptures

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• A volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bibl... Lees meer

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

Lady Sarashina

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Born at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunting self-portr... Lees meer

The Enneads

Plotinus

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Here is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of... Lees meer

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Friedrich Engels

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living among the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores t... Lees meer

The Conquest of New Spain

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's ... Lees meer

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• 'With God's help, I, Bede ... have assembled these facts about the history of the Church in Britain ... from the traditions of our forebears, and from... Lees meer

Max Havelaar

Multatuli

• Paperback | Engels | Classics S
• Roy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meije... Lees meer