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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Hardback)
- Page : 98
- ISBN : 9789356520516
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.1 cm
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.?How can a prince rise to power?What must he do to remain in it?What is expected of a good ruler?Which is better?to be feared or to be loved?Offering an explicit insight into the minds of a ruler, here is a practical handbook and a political treatise exploring the attainment, maintenance and utilization of political power in the Western world. It warns that if a state is not governed properly it shall collapse on the ruler.It describes the art and craft of war. It elaborates on the qualities of a prince and his prudence. It gives lessons in statesmanship and on judging the strength of principalities. One of the first works of modern political philosophy, Niccolò Machiavelli?s the Prince expounds on why the princes of Italy lost their states. He dedicates the book to Lorenzo de? Medici, believing that it is he who can bring salvation for Italy. Full of historical references, the book continues to influence its readers and the hidden ruler in them.
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Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Novel
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Swami Mukerji Yogi (Swami A. P. Mukerji ) (Hardback)
Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, NovelThe Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Swami Mukerji Yogi (Swami A. P. Mukerji ) (Hardback)
- Page : 96
- ISBN : 9789356520462
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga” by swámi A. P. Mukerji. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Classic Fiction
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Hardback)
- Page : 178
- ISBN : 9789356520301
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
“It is good people who make good places.” Well-born and well-bred, the handsome horse named Black Beauty spends his early days with his mother at an English farm. Treated with affection and kindness, he is encouraged to be good always. “. . . I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best, wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”As Black Beauty grows up and changes hands, will he be able to endure the cruel masters, keeping in mind his mother’s lessons of goodness?Bringing to light the mistreatment of horses in England in the nineteenth-century, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was a galloping success. One of the bestselling books of all time, it has been adapted for films and theatre and has been an inspiration for several other works of literature.
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Fiction, Novel
The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey (Hardback)
- Page : 237
- ISBN : 9789356520103
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel By Zane Grey Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. “The Heritage of the Desert” is a western focusing on Mormon culture through a group of people in 1890 Utah. The book revolves around the character, August Naab, a landowner and cattle rustler. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Hardback)
- Page : 104
- ISBN : 978-9356520004.
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”In the kingdom of Athens, Helena loves Demetrius; Demetrius loves Hermia; and Hermia loves Lysander who loves her too. But since Hermia’s father wants Demetrius as his son-in-law, the lovers elope to the forest, only to be followed by Hermia’s best friend— Helena—and her suitor.What happens in the forest, which is enchanted by fairies and elves who work around magical flowers and love potions, when the mischievous elf, Puck, is asked to dispense the spell and he mistakenly places the flower’s juice on Lysander’s eyes instead of Demetrius’? Will the lovers be united with their true love?One of Shakespeare’s earlier and most popular romantic comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream perfectly blends humour and mirth with reality and romance. It has undergone several adaptations across various art forms and continues to be staged around the globe.
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Play, Poetry
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Hardback)
- Page : 134
- ISBN : 978-9356520196
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.1 cm
Washed ashore on the Coast of Illyria after a shipwreck, Viola is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, whom she considers to be dead. A stranger to this unknown land, she disguises herself as a young man named Cesario and joins the service of Duke Orsino. Viola falls for Duke Orsino. Duke Orsino loves Countess Olivia. And Countess Olivia falls for cesario—viola’s male disguise. With this triangle begins the romantic drama of confusions, mistaken identities, and the suffering it causes.
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Fiction, Novel
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore (Hardback)
- Page : 241
- ISBN-13 : 978-9356520110
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
Set on a Bengali noble’s estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947.
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Poetry
Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth (Hardback)
- Page : 155
- ISBN : 9789394885516
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.2 cm
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again – worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
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Poetry
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Hardback)
- Page : 462
- ISBN : 9789356520349
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 4 cm
The Divine Comedy (1320) is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Begun in 1308 while Dante was exiled from his native Florence, The Divine Comedy-a long poem divided into three books of 33 cantos each-presents the author’s spiritual journey from sinfulness and despair to salvation and self-understanding. Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language. In the first book, Inferno, Dante is led by the Roman poet Virgil into Hell. There, he comes to terms with his own sinfulness while observing the horrors and tortures suffered by those condemned to eternity in its circles. Along the way, Dante encounters historical figures, acquaintances, and other individuals whose violence, fraud, treachery, and betrayal led their spirits to terrible suffering.The Divine Comedy (1320) is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Begun in 1308 while Dante was exiled from his native Florence, The Divine Comedy-a long poem divided into three books of 33 cantos each-presents the author’s spiritual journey from sinfulness and despair to salvation and self-understanding. Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language. In the first book, Inferno, Dante is led by the Roman poet Virgil into Hell. There, he comes to terms with his own sinfulness while observing the horrors and tortures suffered by those condemned to eternity in its circles. Along the way, Dante encounters historical figures, acquaintances, and other individuals whose violence, fraud, treachery, and betrayal led their spirits to terrible suffering.
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Self Help
Thrift by Samuel Smiles (Hardback)
- Page : 296
- ISBN : 9789356520356
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
This book is intended as a sequel to “Self-Help,” and “Character might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for Thrift is the basis of Self-Help, and the foundation c much that is excellent in Character.Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer. His masterpiece, Self-Help, promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez faire government. The author has already referred to the Use and Abuse of Money; but the lesson is worthy of being repeated and enforced. As he has already observed, Some of the finest qualitie of human nature are intimately related to the right use of money such as generosity, honesty, justice, and self-denial; as well as the practical virtues of economy and providence. On the other hand, there are their counterparts of avarice, fraud, injustice, and selfishness, as displayed by the inordinate lovers of gain; and the vices of thoughtlessness, extravagance, and improvidence, on the part of those who misuse and abuse the means entrusted to them.
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Short Story, Story Books
The Country of the Blind: And Other Stories by H.G.Wells (Hardback)
- Page : 434
- ISBN : 9789394885424
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.2 cm
The title of this collection refers to one of Wells’s best known short stories, “the country of the blind”, which is included in this book. The country of the blind and other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and Science fiction short stories written between 1894 and 1909, H. G. Wells, (born Sept. 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, Eng-died Aug. 13, 1946, London), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. While studying science under T.H. Huxley in London, Wells formulated a romantic conception of the subject that would inspire the inventive and influential science-fiction and fantasy novels for which he is best known, including the epochal The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He simultaneously took on a public role as an agitator for progressive causes, including the League of Nations. He later abandoned science fiction and drew on memories of his lower-middle-class early life in works including the novel Tono-Bungay (1908) and the comic The History of Mr. Polly (1910).
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History, Religion
Sacred Books of the East by Asvaghoṣa (Hardback)
- Page : 484
- ISBN : 9789393198686
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.5 cm
Asvaghosa, also transliterated Ashvaghosha, c. 80 c. 150 CE was a Sarvästivāda or Mahasanghika Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa in northern India which is also known as Ayodhya
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Fiction, Novel
The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey (Hardback)
- Page : 218
- ISBN : 9789356520141
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
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Travel Literature
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (Hardback)
- Page : 502
- ISBN : 9789356520127
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.1 cm
Set in 1867, The Innocents Abroad is a travel book that follows a group of Americans from New York City to the renowned Holy Land. Throughout the journey, author Mark Twain uses humor and wit to make astute observations about the diverse people and legendary locales. Described as the “Great Pleasure Excursion,” Twain and his traveling companions visit some of the most illustrious cities in the world. They make stops in Italy, France, and Greece as well as modern-day Israel and Ukraine. With each trip, the author notes the contrast between expectation and reality. He critiques the misrepresentation of cultural sites and events with notable irony and disillusion. The retelling of a worldly expedition through an American lens made >The Innocents Abroad a massive commercial success. It’s one Twain’s best-selling books and became a staple within the travel genre. Readers will thoroughly enjoy the author’s enlightening take on the Old World and public perception. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Innocents Abroad is both modern and readable
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Play
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Hardbak )
- Page : 126
- ISBN : 9789356520158
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” Penned by the world’s greatest dramatist, William Shakespeare, The Tempest introduced the concept of tragicomedy to drama literature. The play is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan and his daughter Miranda reside since past 12 years. Wrapped in magic and adventure, this fictional narrative traverses the readers through various themes of betrayal, power, unravelling romance between Ferdinand and Miranda, and a series of events which ultimately leads to a final face-off! Enchanting the readers to a world of mysticism and power, the play pulls the readers into the depths of their imagination, and lulls them to drown in their senses
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