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Novel based on the Shanghai insurrection of 1927.

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Basil March jumps at the chance to leave his boring job to become the founding editor of a new magazine. But this also means that he must leave comfortable Boston for the confusion and chaos of 1890s New York. As March and his wife try to find a decent place to live, he also struggles to find contributors and readers. The Marches are quickly drawn into the tangled lives of their fellow New Yorkers: a bitter German socialist who lost his hand fighting for the Union in the Civil War, a colonel nostalgic for slavery, Bohemian artists, increasingly desperate workers on strike, a slick publicist, a starchy society family, and a wealthy farmer-turned-speculator who hurts those he loves most. Born in Ohio, William Dean Howells was a highly successful magazine editor before he became a full-time writer. He believed that this midlife novel, which draws on his own family’s experiences moving from Boston to New York, was his “most vital work.” Mark Twain, whom Howells helped early in his career, called A Hazard of New Fortunes “the exactest & truest portrayal of New York and New York life ever written … a great book.”

Contains: Nobel Prize address. -- The sound and the fury. -- The bear (Go down, Moses). -- Old man (The wild palms). -- Spotted horses (The hamlet). -- [A rose for Emily]( [Barn burning]( Dry September. -- [That evening sun]( Turnabout. -- Shingles for the Lord. -- A justice. -- [Wash]( An odor of verbena (The unvanquished). -- Percy Grimm (Light in August). -- The courthouse (Requiem for a nun)

- [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]( [Scandal in Bohemia]( [Red-headed League]( [Case of Identity]( [Boscombe Valley Mystery]( [Five Orange Pips]( [The Man with the Twisted Lip]( [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle]( [Adventure of the Speckled Band]( [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb]( [Adventure of the Noble Bachelor]( [Adventure of the Beryl Coronet]( [Adventure of the Copper Beeches]( - [Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]( (11 stories) [Silver Blaze]( [Adventure of the Yellow Face]( [Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk]( [Adventure of the Gloria Scott]( [Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual]( Adventure of the Reigate Squire Crooked Man [Adventure of the Resident Patient]( Adventure of the Greek interpreter [Naval Treaty]( Final Problem

Short story collection containing: A day in the country Old age Kashtanka Enemies On the way Vanka La cigale Grief An inadvertence The Black Monk The kiss In exile A work of art Dreams A woman's kingdom The doctor A trifling occurrence The hollow After the theatre The runaway Vierochka [Степь]( Rothschild's fiddle

The time was late in the autumn of the second year of the war; the place, the garden of a war hospital in a small Austrian town, which lay at the base of wooded hills, sequestered as behind a Spanish wall, and still preserving its sleepy contented outlook upon existence.

The Writer's Chapbook is a collection of excerpts from interviews given by famous writers of the 20th century to The Paris Review. The book is divided into four sections: The Writer: A Profile; Technical Matters; Different Forms; and The Writer's Life. Each section contains a treasure trove of wisdom divided into further categories covering things like short stories, politics, criticism, children's books, revising, motivation and many more.

Contains: Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Cymbeline [Hamlet]( Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Pericles [Romeo and Juliet]( Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida

This anthology endeavors to present, within the limits of a single volume, the major emphases of Protestant thought from John Wycliffe to John Wesley.

Thomas Bulfinch was an American banker and Latin scholar. Bulfinch’s Mythology is a posthumous compilation of three volumes published by Bulfinch during his lifetime which were intended to introduce the general reader to the myths and legends of Western Civilization by presenting them in simple prose with occasional commentary by the author. Bulfinch also includes many quotations showing how these stories have been handled by poets and playwrights of later years. The three original volumes are The Age of Fable (1855), dealing largely with Greek and Roman mythology but also touching on the mythology of other cultures such as the Indian, Egyptian and Norse myths; The Age of Chivalry (1858), dealing with Arthurian legend, the Holy Grail and the Mabinogeon; and Legends of Charlemagne (1863), dealing with the fantastical legends surrounding Charlemagne and his “paladins” such as Orlando, Oliver and Rogero. The combined volume entitled Bulfinch’s Mythology quickly became very popular, and by some accounts it is one of the most popular books ever published in the United States.

In 19th-century Paris, a retiring philologist and bibliophile finds the daughter of a long ago love and resolves to provide for her. He discovers she is being mistreated by her guardian and abducts her for her own safety. When she marries, he sells his library to pay her dowry and retires to the country.

George Ponderovo's quiet young life is changed forever when he is forced to leave home and is apprenticed to his dynamic Uncle Edward in his chemist's shop. Edward, determined to "strike out", invents a bogus medicine called Tono-Bungay which earns him a vast fortune. George's share of the wealth enables him to live out his fantasies by building an aeroplane. As he witnesses the spectacular rise of the Tono-Bungay empire he contemplates a corrupt English society that allows his uncle to wield so much power. Tono-Bungay (1909) is widely regarded as Wells's finest novel, combining futuristic science fiction and contemporary social satire. His scathing account of Edwardian London remains as relevant today as when it was first published. No other writer has the breadth of Wells to encompass both George's personal breakdown and the full panorama of a degenerate imperial society. This is the only popular edition of the text to included Wells's final revisions. The notes explain his multi-layered allusions, and the Introduction places the nove in its literary and historical context. - Back cover.

This advocate of women's liberation and equality between the sexes elaborates on the oppression of women in marriage.

A [Streetcar Named Desire]( / Tennessee Williams -- [Death of a Salesman]( / Arthur Miller -- Come back, little Sheba / William Inge -- The seven year itch / George Axelrod -- Tea and sympathy / Robert Anderson -- The Caine mutiny court-martial / Herman Wouk

The title story of this collection is, like many of the others, set during the Franco-Prussian war. As in so many of Maupassant’s stories he explores class barriers and looks at the contrasts between the French and German combatants.

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; & the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield--the novel he described as his 2favorite child3{u2014}Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant & enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy & comedy in equal measure.