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The Golden Asse or The Metamorphoses
by ApuleiusThe Golden Asse is one of the oldest surviving Latin novels written by the Latin prose writer and magician Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, whose other writings include A Discourse on Magic, On Plato and his Doctrine, On the God of Socrates, On the Universe, and Florida: A compilation of twenty-three extracts from his various speeches and lectures. ..
Philippine Folk Tales
by Mabel Cook ColePhilippine Folk Tales is compiled by Mabel Cook Cole, an anthropologist, who was fortunate enough to stay with wild tribes of Philippines. She had collected the stories from various tribes especially from the major tribal groups such as Tinguian, Igorot, Mindanao, Moro, and Christian. There are vast different in myths and cultures within those trib..
Poems
by Victor HugoThis book is a selection collection of poems of Victor Hugo, a French writer who has influenced the Romantic Movement and remembered for his magnum opus Les Misérables. His poems captured the spirit of Romantic era and touched religious themes. Notable poems in this collection are The Girl Of Otaheite, The Feast Of Freedom, The Morning Of Life, The..
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
by KalidasaShakuntala is a dramatized version of a story from Mahabharata, written by Kalidasa, one of the greatest Sanskrit dramatist and poet. Shakuntala, is brought up in a forest by Kanva Rishi, after her father Vishwāmitra, a sage disowns her on account of continuing his ascetism. King Dushyanta encounters her in forest during his hunting and they get..
Arms and the Man
by Bernard ShawArms and the Man is a comedy play written by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish dramatist and a Nobel Prize literate. Apart from scripting more than sixty plays to his credit, he also contributed to the literary world through essays, novels and short stories. Notable among his numerous writings are Widowers' Houses, The Irrational Knot, Immaturity, The ..
Ghosts
by Henrik IbsenGhosts, is a three act play written by Henrik Johan Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright remembered as “The Father of Realism”. Apart from his magnum opus A Doll's House, his popular works include Hedda Gabbler, An Enemy of the People, and The Master Builder. Ghosts explores the 19th century morality, scripted in three acts. Helen Alving, is married to..
Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nature" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American author who was instrumental to the development of transcendentalism. His notable contribution to the literary world as essays and poems include Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul and The Rhodora. The Author divides nature into four usages such as Commodity, Beauty, Language..
Lays of Ancient Rome
by Baron Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient Rome is a poems collection of narrative style written by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian whose work on British history is considered as a masterpiece. The poems are based on the early roman history and recent historical works such as Ivry and The Armada. It includes poems such as Horatius, The Battle Of..