If any book could be called legendary, surely it is this one. Its author, Italian diplomat and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) considered it his greatest work. Indeed, his thoughts on politics, as laid out so famously in this brief but profound work, have become so synonymous with him that his name has become an adjective: Machiavellian. How is political power achieved? How is it maintained? Though Machiavelli states explicitly that he is not discussing "Republics" here, only "Princedoms", this coldly rational guidebook to taking control and holding onto it contains such universal insights into human nature and the structure of human systems that his "advice" serves equally well in almost any power structure. With applications in such diverse realms as business, the military, even role-playing games, Machiavelli's rules for ruling continue to be required reading for students of politics, philosophy, and ethics.

Por cuanto por parte de vos, Miguel de Cervantes, nos fue fecha relacion que habiades compuesto un libro intitulado El ingenioso hidalgo de la Mancha, el cual os habia costado mucho trabajo y era muy util y provechoso, nos pedistes y suplicastes os mandasemos dar licencia y facultad para le poder imprimir, y previlegio por el tiempo que fuesemos servidos, o como la nuestra merced fuese; lo cual visto por los del nuestro Consejo, por cuanto en el dicho libro se hicieron las diligencias que la prematica ultimamente por nos fecha sobre la impresion de los libros dispone, fue acordado que debiamos mandar dar esta nuestra cedula para vos, en la dicha razon; y nos tuvimoslo por bien. Por la cual, por os hacer bien y merced, os damos licencia y facultad para que vos, o la persona que vuestro poder hubiere, y no otra alguna, podais imprimir el dicho libro, intitulado El ingenioso hidalgo de la Mancha, que desuso se hace mencion, en todos estos nuestros reinos de Castilla, por tiempo y espacio de diez anos, que corran y se cuenten desde el dicho dia de la data desta nuestra cedula; so pena que la persona o personas que, sin tener vuestro poder, lo imprimiere o vendiere, o hiciere imprimir o vender, por el mesmo caso pierda la impresion que hiciere, con los moldes y aparejos della; y mas, incurra en pena de cincuenta mil maravedis cada vez que lo contrario hiciere. La cual dicha pena sea la tercia parte para la persona que lo acusare, y la otra tercia parte para nuestra Camara, y la otra tercia parte para el juez que lo sentenciare. Con tanto que todas las veces que hubieredes de hacer imprimir el dicho libro, durante el tiempo de los dichos diez anos, le traigais al nuestro Consejo, juntamente con el original que en el fue visto, que va rubricado cada plana y firmado al fin del de Juan Gallo de Andrada, nuestro Escribano de Camara, de los que en el residen, para saber si la dicha impresion esta conforme el original; o traigais fe en publica forma de cómo por corretor nombrado por nuestro mandado, se vio y corrigio la dicha impresion por el original.. O traigais fe en publica forma de como por corretor nombrado por nuestro mandado, se vio y corrigio la dicha impresion por el original, y se imprimio conforme a el, y quedan impresas las erratas por el apuntadas, para cada un libro de los que asi fueren impresos, para que se tase el precio que por cada volume hubieredes de haber. Y mandamos al impresor que asi imprimiere el dicho libro, no imprima el principio ni el primer pliego del, ni entregue mas de un solo libro con el original al autor, o persona a cuya costa lo imprimiere, ni otro alguno, para efeto de la dicha correcion y tasa, hasta que antes y primero el dicho libro este corregido y tasado por los del nuestro Consejo; y, estando hecho, y no de otra manera, pueda imprimir el dicho principio y primer pliego, y sucesivamente ponga esta nuestra cedula y la aprobacion, tasa y erratas, so pena de caer e incurrir en las penas contenidas en las leyes y prematicas destos nuestros reinos. Y mandamos a los del nuestro Consejo, y a otras cualesquier justicias dellos, guarden y cumplan esta nuestra cedula y lo en ella contenido. Fecha en Valladolid, a veinte y seis días del mes de setiembre de mil y seiscientos y cuatro anos... ? Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra:(Alcala de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616) fue un soldado, novelista, poeta y dramaturgo espanol. Esta considerado la maxima figura de la literatura espanola y es universalmente conocido por haber escrito Don Quijote de la Mancha, que muchos críticos han descrito como la primera novelamoderna y una de las mejores obras de la literatura universal, ademas de ser el libro mas editado y traducido de la historia, solo superado por la Biblia. Se le ha dado el sobrenombre de ?Principe de los Ingenios?. Desde el siglo XVIII esta admitido que el lugar de nacimiento de Miguel de Cervantes fue Alcala de Henares, dado que allí fue bautizado, segun su acta bautismal, y que de alli aclaro ser natural en la llamada Informacion de Argel (1580). El dia exacto de su nacimiento es menos seguro, aunque lo normal es que naciera el 29 de septiembre, fecha en que se celebra la fiesta del arcangel San Miguel, dada la tradicion de recibir el nombre del santoral del dia del nacimiento. Miguel de Cervantes fue bautizado el 9 de octubre de 1547 en la parroquia de Santa Maria la Mayor. El acta del bautizo reza: Domingo, nueve dias del mes de octubre, ano del Senor de mill e quinientos e quarenta e siete anos, fue baptizado Miguel, hijo de Rodrigo Cervantes e su mujer dona Leonor. Baptizole el reverendo senor Bartolome Serrano, cura de Nuestra Senora. Testigos, Baltasar Vazquez, Sacristan, e yo, que le baptice e firme de mi nombre. Bachiller Serrano. Sus abuelos paternos fueron el licenciado en leyes Juan de Cervantes y dona Leonor de Torreblanca, hija de Juan Luis de Torreblanca, un medico cordobes; su padre se llamaba Rodrigo de Cervantes (1509-1585) y nacio en Alcala de Henares por casualidad: su

Un roman puternic, expresiv, ?ntunecat, v?ndut ?n c?teva zeci de mii de exemplare, situ?ndu-se astfel printre cele mai solicitate romane ale anului.

MUSTANG, MONTANA PROPOSITIONED When irresistible Hank Riverton said he needed Angela Samuels's help, how was the virginal secretary to know he'd be talking about marriage? Now she was on her way to Mustang, Montana, to play wife for a week to the most unmarried man in town! …WITH MARRIAGE? Angela was pretty, prim, and best of all, she posed no threat to Hank's single life. For Hank would rather be dead than wed. But seeing Angela in action had this hardened bachelor's mind wondering about home and hearth. Was it time for Hank to promote his secretary…to full-time bride? A lively little town with secrets, scandal, gossip–and unexpected romance at ever turn(of the page)!

Emma

Moby-Dick

Little Dorrit

A Tale of Two Cities

Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh’s new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. And it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment, and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society.

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist… When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die…

Agatha Christie’s international mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon. Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon – a British agent named Carmichael. Unfortunately the criminal organisation responsible for the weapon’s development will stop at nothing to prevent him entering Baghdad and presenting his proof to the assembled delegates. Can Carmichael enter the city against such odds? Into this explosive situations appears Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded Carmichael dies in her arms in her hotel room. Now, if only she could make sense of his last words ‘…Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge…’

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "George Robert Gissing (November 22, 1857 – December 28, 1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. ... In 1880 when his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, proved to be an abject failure, he became a private tutor to keep poverty from the door. In 1883, he separated from his wife, now an alcoholic, but gave her a weekly income on what little money he had until her death in 1888. In 1884 his second novel, The Unclassed, which saw a marked improvement in style and characterisation, met with moderate critical acclaim. After this Gissing published novels almost on a yearly basis, but so little money did they bring him, that for several more years he had to continue working as a tutor. Although notoriously exploited by his publishers, he was able to visit Italy in 1889 from the sale of the copyright of The Nether World, his most pessimistic book. Between 1891 and 1897 (his so-called middle period) Gissing produced his best works, which include New Grub Street, Born in Exile, The Odd Women, In the Year of Jubilee, and The Whirlpool. In advance of their time, they variously deal with the growing commercialism of the literary market, religious charlatanism, the situation of emancipated women in a male-dominated society, the poverty of the working classes, and marriage in a decadent world. During this period, having belatedly become aware of the financial rewards of writing short stories for the press, he produced almost seventy stories. As a result he was able to give up teaching. ... The middle years of the decade saw Gissing's reputation reach new heights: by some critics he is counted alongside George Meredith and Thomas Hardy as one of the best three novelists of his day. He also enjoyed new friendships with fellow writers such as Henry James, and H.G. Wells, and came into contact with many other up and coming writers such as Joseph Conrad and Stephen Crane. ... In 1903 Gissing published The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, which brought him much acclaim. This is his most autobiographical work. It is the memoir of the last happy years of a writer who had struggled much like Gissing, but thanks to a late legacy had been able to give up writing to retire to the countryside."

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "George Robert Gissing (November 22, 1857 – December 28, 1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. ... In 1880 when his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, proved to be an abject failure, he became a private tutor to keep poverty from the door. In 1883, he separated from his wife, now an alcoholic, but gave her a weekly income on what little money he had until her death in 1888. In 1884 his second novel, The Unclassed, which saw a marked improvement in style and characterisation, met with moderate critical acclaim. After this Gissing published novels almost on a yearly basis, but so little money did they bring him, that for several more years he had to continue working as a tutor. Although notoriously exploited by his publishers, he was able to visit Italy in 1889 from the sale of the copyright of The Nether World, his most pessimistic book. Between 1891 and 1897 (his so-called middle period) Gissing produced his best works, which include New Grub Street, Born in Exile, The Odd Women, In the Year of Jubilee, and The Whirlpool. In advance of their time, they variously deal with the growing commercialism of the literary market, religious charlatanism, the situation of emancipated women in a male-dominated society, the poverty of the working classes, and marriage in a decadent world. During this period, having belatedly become aware of the financial rewards of writing short stories for the press, he produced almost seventy stories. As a result he was able to give up teaching. ... The middle years of the decade saw Gissing's reputation reach new heights: by some critics he is counted alongside George Meredith and Thomas Hardy as one of the best three novelists of his day. He also enjoyed new friendships with fellow writers such as Henry James, and H.G. Wells, and came into contact with many other up and coming writers such as Joseph Conrad and Stephen Crane. ... In 1903 Gissing published The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, which brought him much acclaim. This is his most autobiographical work. It is the memoir of the last happy years of a writer who had struggled much like Gissing, but thanks to a late legacy had been able to give up writing to retire to the countryside."

The Haunted Bookshop

Jennie Gerhardt

Diese Datei enth?lt (im Original Deutsch): Die Verwandlung; Betrachtung: Kleine Erz?hlungen; Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erz?hlungen; Ein Hungerkünstler, Erz?hlung; In der Strafkolonie, Erz?hlung; und Das Urteil, Erz?hlung. Nach Wikipedia: Franz Kafka (3. Juli 1883 - 3. Juni 1924) war ein bedeutender Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde in einer deutschsprachigen jüdischen Familie in Prag, B?hmen (heute Tschechische Republik), ?sterreich-Ungarn geboren. Sein einzigartiger Schriftk?rper, von dem viele unvollst?ndig sind und der haupts?chlich posthum ver?ffentlicht wurde, gilt als einer der einflussreichsten in der westlichen Literatur. Kafka wurde in einem der H?user am Prager Altstadtplatz geboren, direkt neben der St.-Nikolaus-Kirche. In diesem Haus wurde eine Galerie mit einer Dauerausstellung über Kafkas Leben er?ffnet. Seine Geschichten umfassen die Metamorphose (1912) und In der Strafkolonie (1914), w?hrend seine Romane The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) und Amerika (1927) sind.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Prose Tales

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘War and Peace’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Tolstoy includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.eBook features:* The complete unabridged text of ‘War and Peace’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Tolstoy’s works* Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook* Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘No Thoroughfare’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Charles Dickens’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Dickens includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.eBook features:* The complete unabridged text of ‘No Thoroughfare’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Dickens’s works* Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook* Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles."