The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the masterpiece of his late fiction. The book is about many things: the tyranny of bourgeois niceties, the terrible weak spots of the human heart, and it is about death. But more than anything, it deals with the consequences of living without meaning, that is, without a true and abiding connection to one's life.

Literature & Fiction

TOLSTOY, LEO

Literary

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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for THE JUNGLE. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat-packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed to the passage of the Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. THE JUNGLE portrays the life of the immigrant in the United States and the corruption of the American meatpacking industry. The novel harshly depicts poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working-class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption of those in power. Sinclair placed these problems front and center for the American public to see, suggesting that something needed to be changed to get rid of American low-wage slavery. The book was thought too controversial and so it was self-published at first before it became big, and has been in print ever since. This is the complete uncensored version.

The Jungle

SINCLAIR, UPTON

United States

Bastiat's The Law is the classic work which defines the right and just system of laws for a free people, and demonstrates how such laws facilitate a free society.

The Law

Bastiat, Frédéric

World Literature

The Blue Castle

NOTE: The print size of this book is 1 mm. The Blue Castle (1926) is regarded by most critics and literary historians as L. M. Montgomery's best-written work, although Montgomery is still best-known for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). But The Blue Castle has grown greatly in popularity since being republished in 1990. The book has also often been successfully adapted for plays and musicals.

Montgomery., L. M.

Classics

The Man Who Was Thursday

CHESTERTON, G.K.

The Man-eaters of Tsavo

Patterson, John Henry

Earl Nightingale was America's key motivational speaker and 'The Strangest Secret' was his most successful work. This is a transcript of the unrevised original classic 1956 motivational speech. The text was later revised into a print version which Economist Terry Savage calls '...One of the great motivational books of all time.'

Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret

Self-Help

Nightingale, Earl

Motivational

Trial

The Trial

KAFKA, FRANZ

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS is a popular history of popular folly in human society by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 but most of which remains incredibly relevent to this day. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include economic bubbles, crusades &amp; witch-hunts, fortune-telling, medical quackery in curing disease, haunted houses, popular follies of great cities, and the popular admiration of great criminals. This is a book of reason and common-sense which shows precisely how man's idiocy is destined to keep repeating itself, and it is a book which indeed even prohesied the financial crash of 1929 and the economic downturn of more recent years. In fact, important present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis, give it high praise.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

MACKAY, CHARLES

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who re-shaped literature and music in India. As author of Gitanjali and its profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, he was the first non- European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His magical poetry in translation was viewed as profoundly spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the West. Gitanjali is his best-known work and is greatly acclaimed for its beautiful lyricism and wise contemplation, much in the same way as Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.

Gitanjali

Tagore, Rabīndranāth

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