This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Daring Twins by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of L. Frank Baum’. 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 Baum 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 Daring Twins by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Baum’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs’. 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 Burroughs 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 Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Burroughs’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, he is a modern master. This eBook offers you the unique opportunity of exploring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work in a manner never before possible in digital print. The edition includes every Fitzgerald story collection (published in his lifetime), short story, with poems and non-fiction articles and other bonus texts. (Version 2) Features: * annotated introductions to the works, giving contextual information * illustrated with many images relating to Fitzgerald’s life, works, places and film adaptations * ALL the novels, each with its own contents table * ALL the short story collections and each with their own contents table * overall contents tables for the short stories – both alphabetical and chronological – find that special story quickly and easily! * rare short stories previously uncollected from periodicals and magazines * includes Fitzgerald’s poetry and non-fiction printed in the periodicals of his day * EVEN includes the unfinished novel THE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON, available nowhere else * UPDATED with Fitzgerald’s St Paul plays – explore the young writer’s first dramatic works. * UPDATED with Fitzgerald’s letters – spend hours exploring the writer’s personal correspondence. * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Fitzgerald’s works Please note: we aim to provide the most comprehensive author collections available to our readers. Sadly, it’s not possible to guarantee an absolutely ‘complete’ works, due to copyright restrictions on plays and the scarcity of some minor works. However, we do ensure our customers that every possible major text, with bonus material, is included. If you feel a significant text is missing, please contact us via this site. Biographies and critical works are unavailable at this time due to copyright restrictions, but they will be added when they enter the public domain. CONTENTS: The Novels THIS SIDE OF PARADISE THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED THE GREAT GATSBY TENDER IS THE NIGHT THE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON The Short Story Collections FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS TALES FROM THE JAZZ AGE ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN TAPS AT REVEILLE THE PAT HOBBY STORIES MISCELLANEOUS STORIES The Short Stories CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES The Plays and Screenplays THE GIRL FROM LAZY J THE CAPTURED SHADOW COWARD ASSORTED SPIRITS SHADOW LAURELS PORCELAIN AND PINK MR. ICKY THE VEGETABLE, “SEND ME IN, COACH” THREE COMRADES INFIDELITY The Poetry LIST OF POETRY The Non-Fiction LIST OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLES The Letters LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen’. 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 Ibsen 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 ‘An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Ibsen’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe’. 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 Stowe 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 ‘Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Stowe’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, is awakened in the middle of the night and summoned to the house of famous Egyptologist Abel Trelawny at the request of his daughter, Margaret, with whom Malcolm is enamored. Once Malcolm arrives at the house, he meets Margaret, Superintendent Dolan, and Doctor Winchester, and learns why he has been called: Margaret, hearing strange noises from her father’s bedroom, woke to find him unconscious and bloodied on the floor of his room, under some sort of trance.

This is the fifth volume of a new series of publications by Delphi Classics, the best-selling publisher of classical works. Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Walt Whitman, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version: 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Whitman’s life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes two collections of Whitman’s letters – spend hours exploring the poet’s personal correspondence * Also includes Whitman’s scarce novel FRANKLIN EVANS, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Features the complete prose works * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections LEAVES OF GRASS, 1855 LEAVES OF GRASS, 1892 OLD AGE ECHOES UNCOLLECTED AND REJECTED POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Novel FRANKLIN EVANS Other Prose Works LIST OF PROSE WORKS The Letters THE WOUND DRESSER THE LETTERS OF ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the future may often be conveyed in words which could hardly have been understood or interpreted at the time when they were uttered.

In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: 'That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do them good;' and Socrates was anticipating another opportunity of talking with him. In the Euthyphro, Socrates is awaiting his trial for impiety. But before the trial begins, Plato would like to put the world on their trial, and convince them of ignorance in that very matter touching which Socrates is accused. An incident which may perhaps really have occurred in the family of Euthyphro, a learned Athenian diviner and soothsayer, furnishes the occasion of the discussion.

Ν?ο-ιστορικ?, ρεαλιστικ?, κοινωνικ?-πολιτικ? μυθιστ?ρημα, ιδια?τερα επ?καιρο, μια δυνατ? αναφορ? στην προσφυγικ? κρ?ση, που χτυπ? κυρ?ω? τα παιδι?, τα ασυν?δευτα προσφυγ?πουλα.Το φθιν?πωρο του 2014, η Λητ?, φιλ?λογο?, τοποθετε?ται ω? αναπληρ?τρια καθηγ?τρια σε Γυμν?σιο του νησιο? τη? Κω. Εκε?, συναντ? πρ?σφυγε? που καταφθ?νουν με σαπιοκ?ραβα απ? τι? τουρκικ?? ακτ??. Αποφασ?ζει συνειδητ? να βοηθ?σει του? πρ?σφυγε?, ω? εθελ?ντρια, στο ?Ιπποκρ?τειο? νοσοκομε?ο τη? Κω. Στο θ?λαμο του νοσοκομε?ου συναντ? τρει? Σ?ριου? πρ?σφυγε?, βαρι? τραυματισμ?νου?, τον Ασλ?ν, παλι? γν?ριμο, απ? τι? κοιν?? του? μεταπτυχιακ?? σπουδ?? στη Σκωτ?α, μαζ? με ?λλου? δυο Σ?ριου? φ?λου? του, τον Τζαμ?λ και τον Οσ?μα, που συνοδε?ουν ενν?α μικρ? παιδι?, προσφυγ?πουλα, ορφαν? πολ?μου. Η Λητ? εμπλ?κεται στη ζω? των τρι?ν ανδρ?ν και των ενν?α παιδι?ν. Το προσφυγικ? ζ?τημα γ?νεται δικ? τη? θ?μα, κομμ?τι του ψυχισμο? τη?, πρ?γμα που εκφρ?ζεται ?ντονα στα τραγο?δια που πα?ζει στην κιθ?ρα τη?, στου? μαθητ?? τη? στο σχολε?ο τη? Κω, στη ζω? τη?, στον τρ?πο που αναζητ? τι? θ?σει? τη? Ευρωπα?κ?? ?νωση?, τη? ?πατη? Αρμοστε?α? του ΟΗΕ, των εμπλεκ?μενων κρατ?ν. Στηρ?ζει με ιδια?τερη ευαισθησ?α τα ασυν?δευτα παιδι? - προσφυγ?πουλα, που π?φτουν θ?ματα επικ?νδυνων εγκληματι?ν και χ?νονται κατ? τη δι?ρκεια τη? πορε?α? του? προ? την κεντρικ? και β?ρεια Ευρ?πη, σε βρ?μικα κυκλ?ματα εκμετ?λλευση?, πορνε?α?, παιδεραστ?ν, εμπορ?ου ανθρωπ?νων οργ?νων, ναρκωτικ?ν, κ.?. Ο δυνατ?? ?ρωτ?? τη? για τον Ασλ?ν και η αγ?πη τη? για τα παιδι? την οδηγε? μαζ? του?, στην κεντρικ? Ευρ?πη και στην ενεργ? συμμετοχ? τη? στο προσφυγικ? ζ?τημα καθ?? και στην τοποθ?τησ? τη? με πρακτικ? τρ?πο, σε ?να θ?μα που αφορ? ?λη την Ευρ?πη, την παγκ?σμια κοιν?τητα, τον ΟΗΕ, καθ?? χτυπ?ει β?ναυσα, εδ? και χρ?νια, του? λαο?? τη? Μεσογε?ου και υποθ?λπει κρυφ?, ?νομα, αλλ? και φανερ? συμφ?ροντα.Ε?ναι ?να βιβλ?ο που χτυπ? τον ρατσισμ?, την ξενοφοβ?α, τι? θρησκευτικ?? προκαταλ?ψει?, στηρ?ζει τον ?νθρωπο και τι? πανανθρ?πινε? αξ?ε?, που κουρελι?ζονται απ? πολ?μου?, εμφυλ?ου?, μ?ση, φανατισμο?? και ζητ? αλληλεγγ?η και πιστ? εφαρμογ? των ν?μων και καν?νων του ΟΗΕ, που ?χουν να κ?νουν με τα ανθρ?πινα δικαι?ματα.

A new-historical, realistic, social-political novel. A current, strong reference to the refugee crisis, which strikes the unescorted innocent refugee children.At the beginning of the autumn of 2014, Leto, a teacher of Greek literature is assigned in a secondary school of Kos, as a contract teacher. There, she meets a lot of refugees from Syria, who arrive on the island, with old and rusty boats, from the Turkish shores. After a big wreck, she consciously decides to help them as a volunteer in “Hippokratio” hospital of Kos. There, she is responsible for three heavily injured men from Syria. One of them is Aslan, a friend from their common post graduate studies in Aberdeen University, Scotland. In the same room, there are two other friends of him, Jamal and Ossama. They all accompany nine refugee children, orphans of the war. Leto is involved in the life of the three injured men and the nine refugee children. The refugee issue becomes her own issue, a part of her, which she wholeheartedly expresses through playing her guitar to her students of Kos throughout her whole life. She challenges the attitudes of European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as all the involved nations. She stands by the unescorted refugee children, sensitively, who become victims of dangerous criminals and they get lost in den of vices of prostitution, pederasty, trafficking in human organs, drugs and so on, on their way to the Central and North Europe. Leto’s strong love for Aslan and her love for children leads her to the Central Europe where she participates energetically to the refugee matter, and she takes position practically, to an item which overconcerns all Europe, the whole world, the United Nations, as it brutally beats all the nations of Mediterranean Sea, pandering hidden and illegal interests, but obvious too.A book which challenges racism, xenophobia and religious prejudice, stands by the human and supports the universal values that are torn up by the war, the civil war, the total hatreds, and fanatics. It is asking for solidarity and faithful implementation of laws and rules of the U.N., which are closely linked to the human rights.

Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic interest, the complexity of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting of the points of view, are characteristic of his best period of authorship. The vain search, the negative conclusion, the figure of the midwives, the constant profession of ignorance on the part of Socrates, also bear the stamp of the early dialogues, in which the original Socrates is not yet Platonized.

There are no descriptions of time, place or persons, in the Sophist and Statesman, but we are plunged at once into philosophical discussions; the poetical charm has disappeared, and those who have no taste for abstruse metaphysics will greatly prefer the earlier dialogues to the later ones. Plato is conscious of the change, and in the Statesman expressly accuses himself of a tediousness in the two dialogues, which he ascribes to his desire of developing the dialectical method.

We have now to consider the parts which are useful to animals for movement in place (locomotion); first, why each part is such as it is and to what end they possess them; and second, the differences between these parts both in one and the same creature, and again by comparison of the parts of creatures of different species with one another. First then let us lay down how many questions we have to consider.

Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction, and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality.

A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality. The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right.

Caesar, advancing by moderate journeys, and continuing his march without intermission, arrived at Lilybaeum, on the 14th day before the calends of January. Designing to embark immediately, though he had only one legion of new levies, and not quite six hundred horse, he ordered his tent to be pitched so near the sea-side that the waves lashed the very foot of it. This he did with a view that none should think he had time to delay, and that his men might be kept in readiness at a day or an hour's warning. Though the wind at that time was contrary, he nevertheless detained the soldiers and mariners on board, that he might lose no opportunity of sailing; the rather, because the forces of the enemy were announced by the inhabitants of the province, to consist of innumberable cavalry not to be numbered; four legions headed by Juba, together with a great body of light-armed troops; ten legions under the command of Scipio; a hundred and twenty elephants, and fleets in abundance. Yet he was not alarmed, nor lost his confident hopes and spirits. Meantime the number of galleys and transports increased daily; the new-levied legions flocked in to him from all parts; among the rest the fifth, a veteran legion, and about two thousand horse.

On the defeat of Pharnaces and reduction of Africa, those who escaped from those battles fled to young Cn. Pompey, who had taken possession of Further Spain, while Caesar was detained in Italy in exhibiting games. Pompey began to throw himself on the protection of every state, in order the more readily to establish the means of defense against him. Accordingly, with a considerable force which had been collected, partly by entreaty, partly by force, he began to lay waste the province. Under these circumstances some states voluntarily sent him supplies, others shut the gates of their towns against him. If any of these chanced to fall into his hands by assault, although some citizen in it had deserved well of Cn. Pompey (his father), yet some cause was alleged against him on account of the greatness of his wealth, so that, he being dispatched, his fortune might become the reward of the soldiers.

In Civil Disobedience Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, 'whether virtue can be taught.' Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. 'Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.' Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his own notion, which is probably not very different from that of Gorgias? 'O yes—nothing easier: there is the virtue of a man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.'

The Crito seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who having been unjustly condemned is willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the state . . .