In the New Treasure Seekers, the Bastable children in search of a Fortune continues telling the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. The story is told from a child's point of view. The narrator is Oswald.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. 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 Bierce 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 ‘The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’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

After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into the world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. Then through some magic, he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Can Such Things Be?’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. 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 Bierce 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 ‘Can Such Things Be?’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’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 ‘The Ocean Wave’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. 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 Bierce 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 ‘The Ocean Wave’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’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 ‘Kings of Beasts’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. 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 Bierce 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 ‘Kings of Beasts’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’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 ‘Jude the Obscure’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy’. 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 Hardy 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 ‘Jude the Obscure’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Hardy’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 ‘The Complete Short Stories’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy’. 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 Hardy 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 ‘The Complete Short Stories’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Hardy’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 ‘The Dynasts’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy’. 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 Hardy 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 ‘The Dynasts’* Beautifully illustrated with images related to Hardy’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

LITTLE ELISA:?“A Time Traveler Story”??“..There will always be a missing piece in life. It could be either something that is left undone or someone who you could not be able to come together with. Maybe the last piece has all the meaning of our lives and therefore it is always hidden” said Elisa, before she started her talk.??It might be a specific moment that we have to spend the rest of our lives searching that missing diamond piece. Because, without that last piece, nothing will be complete..”??“..Similar to this, what was the missing piece and the true meaning of Alice’s life before she became Elisa? She had to discover it. But she would have to take a really long trip to discover this..”??TRAVELER PILGRIM:?Before I met Elisa, I had read such thing like below, in the book of the Muslim: “This life of the world is nothing But a Pastime and a Game.” ?(Quran, The Book of Islam)??“How could this be possible? Or is this the true meaning of the life?” were the questions that I asked myself since I read this. ?Is there an imaginary world and a real one? ??But after meeting Elisa and seeing these alternative (imaginary) worlds, I slowly realized that I am in a world of amusement indeed. ??Finally I could see that everything is a fictitious game in this book. I am sure that you will agree with me and rethink about the “truth” as you keep reading this book in which Elisa lived and my interesting trips with Elisa..??And you’ll be remember that In the universe, ?Everything has both an imaginary view and a real one, after this long trip!.??“..Could the life we live and we consider as real be a fancy and funny fiction? What is reality? ?This has been discussed again and again, throughout history. It has inspired artists and philosophers.”??He was just a little boy according to his parents. ?Time has passed quickly. But he decided not to lose his childish spirit in spite of everything. He would find a way to implement his belief about finding the elixir of youth and the eternity of life. ??- “Soon we will take a step into a new period by discovering the truth in this alternative world!” he was saying while searching for the elixir of immortality all the time.??"A black rabbit sneaked into a white hole.."?What was that? ?There was not the world we knew, everything was meaningless but a brand new world and a vision were awaiting for the rabbit.."??The Miraculous “WONDERLAND”: ?Where EVERYTHING is POSSIBLE..

Charles Dickens was born on 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class, but they suffered financially as a result of living beyond their means. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family's dire straits forced him to quit school and work in a blacking factory, a place where shoe polish is made. Within weeks, his father was put in debtor's prison, where Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. At this point, Dickens lived on his own and continued to work at the factory for several months. The horrific conditions in the factory haunted him for the rest of his life, as did the experience of temporary orphanhood. Apparently, Dickens never forgot the day when a more senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens in how to do his work more efficiently. For Dickens, that instruction may have represented the first step toward his full integration into the misery and tedium of working-class life. The more senior boy's name was Bob Fagin. Dickens's residual resentment of him reached a fevered pitch in the characterization of the villain Fagin in Oliver Twist.??After inheriting some money, Dickens's father got out of prison and Charles returned to school. As a young adult, he worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. His experience as a journalist kept him in close contact with the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution, and he grew disillusioned with the attempts of lawmakers to alleviate those conditions. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens became famous and began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, which was serialized in 1836 and published in book form the following year.??In 1837, the first installment of Oliver Twist appeared in the magazine Bentley’s Miscellany, which Dickens was then editing. It was accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank, which still accompany many editions of the novel today. Even at this early date, some critics accused Dickens of writing too quickly and too prolifically, since he was paid by the word for his serialized novels. Yet the passion behind Oliver Twist, animated in part by Dickens’s own childhood experiences and in part by his outrage at the living conditions of the poor that he had witnessed as a journalist, touched his contemporary readers. Greatly successful, the novel was a thinly veiled protest against the Poor Law of 1834.??In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated, ending a long series of marital difficulties. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels—among them Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House—continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished.??The Poor Laws: Oliver Twist’s Social Commentary?Oliver Twist opens with a bitter invective directed at the nineteenth-century English Poor Laws. These laws were a distorted manifestation of the Victorian middle class’s emphasis on the virtues of hard work. England in the 1830s was rapidly undergoing a transformation from an agricultural, rural economy to an urban, industrial nation. The growing middle class had achieved an economic influence equal to, if not greater than, that of the British aristocracy.??In the 1830s, the middle class clamored for a share of political power with the landed gentry, bringing about a restructuring of the voting system. Parliament passed the Reform Act, which granted the right to vote to previously disenfranchised middle-class citizens. This desire gave rise to the Evangelical religious movement and inspired sweeping economic and political change.

Jean Bodel a minstrel of the thirteenth century, wrote, "There are but three subjects which interest men,—the tales of France, of Britain, and of Rome the great; and to these subjects there is nothing like. The tales of Britain are so light and pleasant, those of Rome are wise and of teachful sense; those of France, truly every day of greater appearance."??In this story of Roland as I propose telling it, I shall intro-duce you to some of the most pleasing of those "tales of France" The poems and legends which embody them were written in various languages, and at widely different times; but in them two names, Charlemagne and Roland are of very frequent occurrence. Charlemagne, as you know, was a real historical personage, the greatest monarch of medieval times. His empire included France, the greater part of Germany and Italy; and his power and influence were felt all over the Christian world. The fame of his achievements in war was heralded and sung in every country of Europe; his name was in the mouth of every story-teller and wandering bard; and it finally became customary to ascribe all the heroic deeds and wonderful events of three centuries to the time of Charlemagne. ??The songs and stories in which these events were related were dressed up with every kind of embellishment to suit the circumstances of their recital. Wild myths of the Pagan ages, legends and traditions of the Christian Church, superstitious notions of magic and witchcraft, fantastic stories derived from the Arabs of Spain and the East,—all these were blended in one strange mass, and grafted upon a slender core of historical truth. The result was a curious mixture of fact and fiction, of the real and the marvellous, of the beautiful and the impure, of Christian devotion and heathen superstition. And it was thus that "the tales of France", which we may term the legendary history of Charlemagne, came into being ..

O misiune himeric?, un echipaj condus de un nes?buit, un pasager clandestin cu o mare problem? ?i o mare speran??. ?i ?n jur o lume de ghea?? a c?rei splendoare nu e egalat? dec?t de cruzimea cu care respinge via?a uman?. La 1850, vasul Impetus porne?te spre nord vest, din Groenlanda, ?n c?utarea expedi?iei pierdute a lui Franklin. Cu ?nt?rziere – sezonul propice navig?rii se apropie de final. ?nainteaz?, totu?i, cu ?nver?unare, ?n ciuda tuturor semnelor potrivnice. P?n? c?nd vasul r?m?ne captiv ?n imensul pustiu arctic, f?r? nici o posibilitate de mi?care, nici ?nainte, nici ?napoi. Femeia ?ns?rcinat? care se ascunsese la bord va na?te aici, iar copilul va deveni noul centru de greutate al vasului prins ?n ghea??. Ie?irea la suprafa??, cea de a doua carte a t?n?rului scriitor irlandez Cormac James, este romanul unei expedi?ii la cap?tul lumii, dar ?i al unei aventuri domestice: paternitatea. O carte f?r? nici un cuv?nt ?n plus.

Da-da, ?i noi, martorii fl?m?nzi de auto-construc?ie, ridicoli ?i glorio?i pasageri ai ?nceputului de mileniu precoce ?mb?tr?nit, precoce obosit de existen??!, fl?m?nzi – ?ntr-un mod dizgra?ios, strident, dep??it – de idealuri – oho!, ce cuv?nt cu miros de alt secol cultural! –, a?tept?m, vis?nd, Povestea, spus? cu o jum?tate de gur?, ?n ritmuri lente, neb?nuit de ?ncete, cu digresiuni multiple, savant-priceput inserate ?n corpul ei masiv ?i cumva greoi, aparent greoi, cu ac?iune – nu foarte mult?, totu?i! –, cu eroi care au aerul de – ?i, deci, sunt de fapt, ?ntr-o m?sur? mai mare – antieroi, cu personaje problematice, cu dialoguri lungi-lungi ?n perimetrul generos-calculat al c?rora personajele se livreaz?, gr?bite s? se consume, definitiv, se precipit?, se nelini?tesc, prinse de un etern neast?mp?r rapace, de pofta – ca s? nu zicem setea – de a spune totul-totul, ?ncol?i?i de spaima venirii bru?te a unei Apocalipse.

Romanul Condamnat s? ucid? este o ?ncercare de a reda realit??ile ?epocii de aur“, dar ?i cele din perioada impunerii de c?tre ru?i a comunismului ?n Rom?nia. Personajul central, arhitectul Tudor Gur?u, s?tul de lipsa de perspectiv? a meseriei sale, ca proiectant de garduri de prefabricate, cote?e de porci ?i blocuri de garsoniere pentru nefamili?ti, realizeaz? c? locul s?u nu este ?ntr-un institut de proiect?ri f?r? perspective. Se ?ntreab? dac? nu a venit momentul s? fug? peste grani??, sper?nd c? ?n Apus ??i poate valorifica aptitudinile... Trebuie s? dispar? pentru a nu pl?ti cu via?a o crim? pe care n-a ?nf?ptuit-o. Fur? ma?ina celor veni?i la locuin?a lui s?-l aresteze ?i str?bate cu ea jum?tate de ?ar?, apoi cealalt? jum?tate cu bicicleta. Trece, ?n cele din urm?, Dun?rea ?n Iugoslavia.

Televiziunea, v?zut? din interior, a?a cum ar?ta ?nainte de 1989, merita atunci ca ?i acum porecla folosit? ca titlu al romanului, o fiin?? demn? de tot dispre?ul. Este un roman cu coloratur? istoric?, de?i ?n ansamblul s?u pare o fic?iune istoric? a unei genera?ii de naivi.

De ce, oare, ne ?ntreb?m, ?i ?nlesnise Gra?ian Porumb omului pe care-l dispre?uia aceast? fapt?, aceast? grav? injusti?ie? Nu ?tim, d?m din umeri, privim ?n st?nga, privim ?n dreapta, dar de nic?ieri nu ne vine un ajutor c?t de c?t, un r?spuns. ?i nu ne r?m?ne atunci, insisten?i cum suntem, dec?t s? ghicim: trebuia oare, ?n imagina?ia ?nfierb?ntat? de nou? ?i ciudat? aventur? a t?n?rului – trebuia oare ca prietenul s?u Bizoniu, s? ?coboare" ?i ?n ?lumea cealalt?" care, ha, ha, se afla tot ?n lumea noastra, ?n lumea ?celor nev?zu?i?" A, nu, ei nu sunt nev?zu?i dec?t pentru simplul motiv ca ?i ?nl?turam din calea, din drumurile noastre ?i ?i ascundem, ?i ??nchidem" ?n subteranele lor care se cheam? sau temni?e, sau case de nebuni! Oricum, ?n ?subteranele nebunilor" Gra?ian consider? c? "micul pop?" ??i plimbase deja pa?ii ?i f?ptura, urma doar sa ?accead?" ?i la "ceilal?i", cei ne?n?ele?i ?i ?pedepsi?i" care, vii ?i fiin?e fiind, ca ?i noi, aveau la r?ndul lor dreptul de a-L ?nt?lni. A?a cum ?i ?el", omul viu ?i ?n?eleg?tor – de?i, cum am v?zut, el nu ?abuz?" de ?n?elegerea sa, nu se gr?bea defel ?s? ?n?eleag?", ci mai ales s? aud?, s? vad?, s? stea al?turi, s? fie, adic?, s?-?i d?ruiasca din merindea timpului s?u ?i nou?, s? fie ?cu noi" – deci, a?a cum ?i ?el" avea ?dreptul" de a fi cu ?ei". Cine ?tie? (Nicolae Breban)Puterea nev?zut? este cel de-al treilea volum din tetralogia Ziua ?i noaptea, care are ca supratem? rela?ia maestru-ucenic.

Marina ?vetaieva se distinge printr-o scriitur? accentuat personal?, nu numai ?n poezie, dar ?i ?n proz?. Este vorba de stilistica ei nervoas?, abrupta, sincopata, chiar ?i ortografic inconfundabil?, cu multiple linii de pauz? ori intercal?ri neuzuale de paranteze, exclama?ii ?i altele. Care s? fie, deci, cuv?ntul nimerit pentru a surprinde particularitatea acestei crea?ii? I-am spus: stare patetic?. ?i pot spune: stare febril?. I-am spus: radicalitate. ?i pot spune: frenezie. ?i via?a, ?i opera ?vetaievei febriciteaz?. Ele repudiaz?, f?r? ?ncetare, situa?iile medii, mediocre, cotidiene, cumin?i. ...Dac? excesul poate periclita via??, excesivul poate salva arta. Excesivul e aici o supralicitare a d?ruirii, o hipertrofie a ata?amentului. ?vetaieva smulge arta din str?mtor?rile ei, ale ?vetaievei ?i ale artei. E ca o hiperbola a omului, ca o dovada a demnit??ii rec??tigate: prin arta subumanul trece ?n sublim. Crez?nd ?n art?, ?vetaieva crede ?n umanitate, ?n ?ansa nemuririi ei palpabile. Dar transgresarea mor?ii ea o stoarce din vecin?tatea mor?ii; dintr-o via?? ne?ncetat periclitat? de absolutismele ei. Via?a nu e tr?it? pe m?sura artei, s-o oblig?m la nem?surare! – ar putea fi deviza ei, ultimul ei mesaj.

Constat c literatura mare n-au scris-o, dup 1989, cei care ctigaser puterea, n cultur, sub eticheta biruitoare de postmodernism, ci scriitorii singuratici, indiferent de generaie, indiferent dac unora li s-au pus stigmatul de expirai. Nicolae Breban, o spun de la bun nceput, a dat una dintre marile cri ale literaturii romne moderne i transmoderne, aproape o carte-testament. (...) Singura cale este una dintre cele mai lucide cri care s-au scris vreodat, capodopera-sintez a operei lui Nicolae Breban, susinut la o tensiune narativ excepional. (...) Singura cale este unul dintre marile romane transmoderne, n varianta cinic/kynic.“ – Theodor CodreanuCred c un mare scriitor cum este Nicolae Breban ar merita mult mai mult atenie de ct a avut parte n ultimii douzeci de ani, cnd s-a ncpnat s fac ceea ce a fcut dintotdeauna, indiferent de epoca pe care a traversat-o, indiferent de situaia social pe care a avut-o: s scrie. Ca orice mare creator, Breban a avut mereu puterea de a institui prin scrisul su, n pofida evidenelor, normalitatea.“ – Bogdan Creu)Nicolae Breban, nscut n 1934, continu, de la debutul su literar din 1957 i de la publicarea primului su romn, Francisca, n 1965, s fie o prezen de vrf n literatura romn contemporan. (...) Autorul attor volume a probat, de asemenea, un singular curaj civic, atunci cnd, la nici doi ani de la alegerea sa, exclusiv pentru merite culturale, ca membru supleant al Comitetului Central al Partidului Comunist Romn (august 1969), a dezavuat, la Paris, n mod public, regimul Ceauescu, pentru tezele culturale dogmatice din iulie 1971. Cu acel prilej, i-a dat i demisia din funcia de redactor-ef al principalei reviste literare autohtone, Romnia literar. El a refuzat, totui, exilul i s-a ntors n Romnia, suportnd cu demnitate urmrile gesturilor sale de nesupunere n numele unei contiine scriitoriceti libere...“ – Ion IanoiN. Breban este mai ales unul dintre marii romancieri ai literaturii romne dintotdeauna, cel mai important dintre romancierii notri actuali, sincron, prin formele i substana ficiunii, celei mai semnificative literaturi contemporane universale.“ – Marian Victor Buciu

Prix Médicis ?tranger, Fran?a, 2010Premi Llibreter, Spania, 2011California Book Award, 2008Grace Paley Price, 2007Dac? ideea de ?eliberare prin scris“ are ?n ea o s?m?n?? de adev?r, povestirile cvasiautobiografice din acest volum reprezint? cea mai bun? exemplificare. Obsedat de imaginea unui tat? ciudat, greu de ?n?eles, care pare s? nu-?i fi g?sit nic?ieri locul potrivit, David Vann ?ncearc? s? ?i traseze traiectoria de via??, pentru a-l ?n?elege mai bine ?i pentru a reu?i s? se ?mpace cu el. ??i rememoreaz? mai ?nt?i copil?ria, momentele dureroase sau senine petrecute al?turi de tat?l s?u ori cu g?ndul la el. ??i imagineaz? apoi o c?l?torie cu el ?n Alaska, unde se retrag am?ndoi ?ntr-o regiune nelocuit?, ?n mijlocul naturii s?lbatice, ?ncerc?nd parc? s? transforme ?n realitate atrac?ia dintotdeauna a tat?lui fa?? de ?spiritul de frontier?“, nostalgia unei austerit??i care ar fi putut s? compenseze via?a tr?it? p?n? atunci ?n dezordine, egoism ?i ?n?el?ciune. Cu o intransigen??, dar ?i o ingenuitate remarcabile, b?iatul merge p?n? la cap?t al?turi de tat?l s?u ?i rezolv? ?n mod radical nu at?t enigma acestuia, c?t raporturile sale filiale cu el ?i conflictul moral devastator din via?a tat?lui.Volum tradus ?n 19 limbi

Biblioteca pentru toi copiii“ cuprinde cele mai preuite opere ale scriitorilor clasici ai literaturii romne i universale. Crile de neuitat ale copilriei sunt disponibile astzi si in format e-book.Capodoper a literaturii pentru copii i adolesceni, Robinson Crusoe rmne i astzi o carte fundamental a primelor lecturi. Creat n 1719, ea a legnat copilria multor generaii, fiind rspndit pe toate meridianele lumii. Jean-Jaques Rousseau considera romanul un excelent tratat de educaie, iar André Malraux l aaz pe nlimile atinse de Cervantes i de Dostoievski. Mereu vie, cartea lui Daniel Defoe ne nva s fim nelepi i curajoi, s sperm i s nvingem.“