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On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in a grim island fortress off Marseilles. A fellow prisoner inspires Dantès to escape and guides him to a fortune in treasure. Dantès returns home under the pseudonym of the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, in order to avenge himself on the men who conspired to destroy him. The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in France, Italy, and ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. Tom Sawyer accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness a trio of body snatchers getting into a fight. When one of the men is killed, they overhear the murderer's plans to bury a box of treasure. What follows is a an adventure of a lifetime, as Tom and Huck search for the hidden treasure. Huckleberry Finn runs away from the ...

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd century or earlier. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism, which is a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition that held great importance during both the Renaissance and the Reformation periods. The work discusses the divine, the cosmos, the mind, alchemy, astrology, and nature. The Corpus Hermeticum dwells upon the oneness and goodness of God, urges pu...

On Robinson Crusoe's first seafaring voyage, his ship sinks in a violent storm. On his second voyage he is enslaved by pirates. When Crusoe braves the ocean after several years in Brazil, Providence leaves him as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a deserted island. Confronted by hunger and the elements, Crusoe builds a home, grows crops, tames wild animals, and survives cannibals and mutineers by his wits and the qualities of his cultural up...

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty, he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding th...

Richard began writing poetry at the age of twelve, after an assignment by his 6th grade teacher. In his twenties, Richard read voraciously history and literature and wrote 40 sonnets to improve his writing's flow His journey then as a young poet/family man is documented in Northspur, an autobiographical journal. In his thirties he wrote his first chapbook while working blue collar jobs to support his growing children and had little time to wri...

Paradise Lost concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man. The epic poem follows two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell. The narrative follows the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. After losing the total freedom and power to rule over all creation, Archangel Michael gives ...

On an expedition to find a giant sea monster, three men are hurled into the ocean. They are rescued by Captain Nemo in his technologically advanced submarine. In order to keep his submarine a secret, Nemo tells the three companions that they can never leave. Their adventures take them to the submerged land of Atlantis, to the Antarctic ice shelves, and to the ocean floor in diving suits to hunt sharks with air-guns. What follows is a gripping ...

Edna Pontellier struggles with her role as a housewife, and yearns for social freedom. Her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood fuel her desires and passion, despite the prevailing social attitudes of the South. On a quest of self discovery, Edna flees her domestic role in search of love and spiritual freedom in a world that isn't ready for her. The Awakening is one of the earliest novels that focuses on women's issues wi...

From the author of The Plague, Judgement Day comes the sister book, Demons, Judgement Day. Where does it start? A little want or need as a child that slowly grows into desire. We are all human and we all face the reality of the imperfection of being. Desire comes in many forms. For some, it's narcotics, an artificial high while fully knowing that the high will bring an equivalent low. That low conveniently providing the need for the next hi...

The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. It is widely considered one of the most important historical philosophical works, and had an important impact upon the European Middle Ages, becoming one of the core works of medieval philosophy. It therefore indirectly became critical in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology. The theme of Nicomachean Ethics is a ...

The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text written by V¿tsy¿yana. It is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behaviour in Sanskrit literature. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. "K¿ma" which is one of the four goals of Hindu life, means desire including sexual desire the latter being the subject of the textbook, and "s¿tra" literally means a thread or line that holds things togeth...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called on to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and am...

The Blue Fairy Book assembles a wide range of tales, including seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairytales. The Fairy Books are some of Andrew Lang's most notable works. Lang was fighting against the critics of his day who judged fairy tales as being harmful for young readers. Over a generation, Lang's books worked a revolution in this public perception. These collectio...

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Blank Classics' Medium format 5.83X8.27 inch dotted bullet journal includes a blank table of contents and numbered pages. Dots are subtly arranged as a guide for writing, illustrations, and charts. Blank Classics' acid free paper, ensurs that the creativity within will stand the test of time.

Weizenstärke wird aus weißem, dünnhülsigem, mehligem Weizen hergestellt. Dieser enthält etwa 58¿64 % Stärke, außerdem etwa 10 % Kleber und 3¿4 % Zellstoff, welcher hauptsächlich die Hülsen des Korns bildet. Die Eigenschaften des Klebers bedingen die Abweichungen der Weizenstärkefabrikation von der Gewinnung der Stärke aus Kartoffeln. Nach dem traditionellen Halleschen oder Sauerverfahren weicht man den Weizen in Wasser, zerquetscht ihn zwische...

Im Jahre 1889 erschien Der schweizerische Bienenvater in seiner ersten Auflage. Als Verfasser zeichneten die drei Experten der deutschschweizerischen Imkerschaft J.Jeker, U.Kramer und P. Theiler. Der Bienenvater galt damals als eines der besten Lehrbücher der Bienenzucht und erlebte rasch nacheinander mehrere Auflagen. Mit der hier vorliegenden 11. Auflage durch Fritz Leuenberger enstand auf dieser Grundlage ein neues und umfangreicheres Lehrb...

Die Hirse ist ein sehr mineralstoffreiches Getreide. In Hirse sind Fluor, Schwefel, Phosphor, Magnesium, Kalium und im Vergleich zu anderen Getreiden besonders viel Silizium (Kieselsäure), Eisen und Vitamin B6 enthalten. Im Altertum und Mittelalter zählten die unterschiedlichen Hirsearten zum meistangebauten Getreide. Durch Ausgrabungen in Mittel- und Norddeutschland ist ebenso der Hirseanbau in der vorrömischen Eisenzeit (Hallstatt- und Latèn...

Description This book is addressed to the 19th century French poet Stephane Mallarme. Mallarme was a high school English teacher in France, and took after Baudelaire, by translating Edgar Allen Poe into French. At his first school, he has forced to move to a new one, as he had published some poems in a journal by the Parnassians, a frowned upon group including Paul Verlaine. Mallarme became well known during his lifetime. This book is a work o...