The Mahabharata
Vyasa
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The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of hu
Anti-Oedipus
Gilles Deleuze
评分 9.4分
An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work
Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin
评分 9.5分
Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia -the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have writ
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together tw
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and r
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
评分 8.7分
中译名《杨柳风》。以下简介及作者简介均摘选转自http://www.douban.com/subject/1256292/，谢谢原作者： 《杨柳风》是一部妙趣横生的经典儿童小说，书中塑造了几个可爱的动物形象：胆小怕事但又生性喜欢冒险的鼹鼠，热情好客、充满浪漫诗趣的河鼠，侠义十足、具有领袖风范的老獾，喜欢吹牛、臭显、追求时髦的蟾蜍，敦厚老实的水獭―
The Republic
Plato
柏拉图（公元前427年－347年）是古希腊的大哲学家，苏格拉底（公元前469年－399）的学生，亚里士多德（公元前384年－322年）的老师。他一生大部分时间居住在古希腊民族文化中心的雅典。他热爱祖国，热爱哲学。他的最高理想，哲学家应为政治家，政治家应为哲学家。哲学家不是躲在象牙塔里的书呆，应该学以致用，求诸实践。有哲学头脑的人，要有政权，有政权的人，要有哲学头脑。
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
评分 7.2分
斯蒂文生（1850-1894）于1850年诞生在英国北部苏格兰的首都爱丁堡，1894年病逝于南太平洋萨摩亚群岛的吾波卢岛。在他短暂的四十四年生命旅程中，写作生涯占了二十二年。
Maurice
E. M. Forster
评分 9.2分
An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster's Maurice is edited b
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
评分 9.1分
在线阅读本书 Enthralled by a portrait of himself, young Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Thus he is able to indulge in his de
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
评分 9.0分
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and internatio
Language, Truth and Logic
A.J. Ayer
If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by dire
Max Havelaar
Multatuli
在线阅读本书 Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial
John Keats
评分 9.7分
Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immedia
The Story of the Stone, Volume I
Cao Xueqin
在线阅读本书 Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese literature, this five-part story charts the changing fortunes of the Jia family. It sets worldly events - love affairs, s
Erewhon
Samuel Butler
Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where sickness is a punishable crime, criminals receive compassionate medical treatment, and machines are banned (for fear they'll evolve and be
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
评分 9.3分
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the
Three Plays
Euripides
One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484 406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods
Driftglass
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass is the def
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
John M Marincola
What is history and how should it be written? An important new anthology containing the seminal texts on the writing of history in the ancient world. The study of history was invented in
The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges
'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.' Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a l
Demian
Hermann Hesse
The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as
Typhoon
Joseph Conrad
Faces of Love
Hafez
Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era
The Sea Close By
Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
On Being Different
Merle Miller
评分 8.1分
The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Diffe
Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Framley Parsonage" by Anthony Trollope. 'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forc
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
在线阅读本书 Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families the Trasks and the Hamiltons - who
