-Titulo Original : Lud-in-the-mist-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: Lud-in-the-Mist begins with a quotation by Jane Harrison, with whom Mirrlees lived in London and Paris, and whose influence is also found in Madeleine and The Counterplot. The book is dedicated to the memory of Mirrleess father.Lud-in-the-Mists unconventional elements, responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership, are understood better if they are analyzed in the context of her whole oeuvre. In this novel, the prosaic and law-abiding inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist, a city located at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, in the fictional state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit and the effect of the fantastic inhabitants of the bordering land of Faerie, whose presence and very existence they had sought to banish from their rational lives. When the denial proves futile, their mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, finds himself involved reluctantly with the conflict and obliged to change his conventional personal life and disregard the traditions of Lud-in-the-Mist to find a reconciliation.Hope Mirrlees was a British poet, novelist, and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed modernisms lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition. Review In a 1946 discussion of fantastic literature, Edward Wagenknecht referred to Hope Mirrlees unappreciated masterpiece Lud-in-the-Mist.David Langford and Mike Ashley describe Lud-in-the-Mist as a moving book, shifting unpredictably from drollery to menace to a high poignancy that sticks in the mind.Neil Gaiman described Lud as one of the finest [fantasy novels] in the English language.... It is a little golden miracle of a book. He described Mirrleess writing as elegant, supple, effective and haunting: the author demands a great deal from her readers, which she repays many times over. He says that it is one of his top ten favourite books...

-Titulo Original : Swanns Way Remembrance Of Things Past, Volume One-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: From literal French, In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. The most famous example is the episode of the madeleine, which occurs early in the first volume. The novel gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past.In Search of Lost Time follows the narrators recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished, he continued to add new material and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages, as they existed only in draft form at the authors death; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert...

-Titulo Original : The Time Machine An Invention-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle. The Time Machine has been adapted into three feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It has also indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media production...

-Titulo Original : The Prophet-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: The Prophet is Gibrans best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 108 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print.The prophet, Al Mustafa, has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. Review Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to ones ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes... If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great mans philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth. --Chicago Pos...

-Titulo Original : Autobiography Of A Yogi Reprint Of The Original (1946) Edition-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California. In 1935 he returns to India for a yearlong visit. When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book. The book is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual thought of the East, which had only been available to a few in 1946. The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known as the Yogiraj and Kashi baba. Before becoming a yogi, Lahiri Mahasayas actual name was Shyama Charan Lahiri...

-Titulo Original : The Man In The Brown Suit-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: Anne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she witnessed, a murder in England the next day, and attempts to kill her on the ship en route to Cape Town...

-Titulo Original : The Mysterious Affair At Styles-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Christies first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. This is also the setting of Curtain, Poirots last case. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will...

-Titulo Original : Anna Karenina-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: Tolstoy published Anna Karenina in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it flawless as a work of art. His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired the flawless magic of Tolstoys style, and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as, the best ever written. Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya). Tolstoys parents died when he was young, so he and his siblings were brought up by relatives. In 1844, he began studying law and oriental languages at Kazan University...

-Titulo Original : The Jungle-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: Sinclair had spent about six months investigating the Chicago meatpacking industry for Appeal to Reason, the work which inspired his novel. He intended to set forth the breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit. The novel featured Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who works in a meat factory in Chicago, his teenaged wife Ona Lukoszaite, and their extended family. Sinclair portrays their mistreatment by Rudkus employers and the wealthier elements of society. His descriptions of the unsanitary and inhumane conditions that workers suffered served to shock and galvanize readers. Jack London called Sinclairs book the Uncle Toms Cabin of wage slavery. Domestic and foreign purchases of American meat fell by half. Sinclair wrote in Cosmopolitan in October 1906 about The Jungle: I aimed at the publics heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. The novel brought public lobbying for Congressional legislation and government regulation of the industry, including passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. At the time, President Theodore Roosevelt characterized Sinclair as a crackpot,writing to William Allen White, I have an utter contempt for him. He is hysterical, unbalanced, and untruthful. Three-fourths of the things he said were absolute falsehoods. For some of the remainder there was only a basis of truth. After reading The Jungle, Roosevelt agreed with some of Sinclairs conclusions, but was opposed to legislation that he considered socialist. He said, Radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist. Review From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Originally published in 1991 as part of a short-lived revival of the Classics Illustrated line, this adaptation of Sinclairs muckraking socialist novel succeeds because of its powerful images. When Kuper initially drew it, he was already a well-known left-wing comics artist. His unenviable task is condensing a 400-page novel into a mere 48 pages, and, inevitably, much of the narrative drama is lost. Kuper replaces it, however, with unmatched pictorial drama. The story follows Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkis and his family as they are eaten up and spit out by capitalism (represented by Chicagos packing houses). Kuper uses an innovative full-color stencil technique with the immediacy of graffiti to give Sinclairs story new life. When Jurgis is jailed for beating the rich rapist Connor, a series of panels suffused with a dull, red glow draw readers closer and closer to Jurgiss face, until they see that the glint in his eye is fire. Jurgis, briefly prosperous as a strong-arm man for the Democratic machine, smokes a cigar; the smoke forms an image of his dead son and evicted family. Perhaps most visually dazzling is the cubist riot as strikers battle police amid escaping cattle. Kuper infuses this 1906 novel with the energy of 1980s-era street art and with his own profoundly original graphic innovation, making it a classic in its own right. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up-In 1906, Sinclair published The Jungle, a realistic and scathing portrayal of the life of an immigrant worker. Kupers revised adaptation focuses solely on its hero, Jurgis Rudkus. Readers follow him from his emigration from Lithuania to downtown Chicago, eager to find the American Dream hes heard so much about. But the harsh world of Chi-town quickly shatters his hopes; forced to take a job at a slaughterhouse, he performs the most menial and vile tasks. An injury pushes him to unemployment and, unable to provide for them, he leaves his family in shame. Rudkus transforms from a starry-eyed dreamer into a cynical but valiant man who fights for workers rights. Kupers artwork effectively mimics some of the major art movem...

-Titulo Original : The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, A Scandal in Bohemia, includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking The Adventure of the Speckled Band as his overall favourite...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Adversary-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: In the Prologue, a man aboard the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 quietly gives important papers to a young American woman, as she is more likely to survive the sinking ship. In 1919 London, demobilised soldier Tommy Beresford meets war volunteer Prudence Tuppence Cowley, both out of work and money. They form The Young Adventurers, Ltd, planning to hire themselves out with no unreasonable offer refused. They are overheard by Mr Whittington who follows Tuppence to offer her a position. He is shocked when she gives her name as Jane Finn. Whittington sends her away with some money, then disappears without a trace. They advertise for information regarding Jane Finn. The advertisement yields two immediate replies. They first meet with Mr Carter, whom Tommy recognises as a leader in British intelligence from his war service. Mr Carter tells of Jane Finn aboard the RMS Lusitania when it sank in 1915. She received a secret treaty to deliver to the American embassy in London. She survived, but the government has found neither Jane Finn nor the draft treaty since. Publication of the treaty now would compromise the British government. Tommy and Tuppence agree to work for Carter. He warns them of the elusive and merciless figure known as Mr Brown. Next they meet with Julius Hersheimmer, an American multimillionaire who is the first cousin of Jane Finn, staying at the Ritz Hotel. He is intent on finding her. He has already contacted Scotland Yard; an Inspector named Brown took his only photo of Jane, before a real inspector contacted him. Tommy and Tuppence join forces with Julius. Review The critic for The New York Times Book Review (11 June 1922) was impressed: It is safe to assert that unless the reader peers into the last chapter or so of the tale, he will not know who this secret adversary is until the author chooses to reveal him. The review gave something of a backhanded compliment when it said that Christie gives a sense of plausibility to the most preposterous situations and developments. Nevertheless it conceded that Miss Christie has a clever prattling style that shifts easily into amusing dialogue and so aids the pleasure of the reader as he tears along with Tommy and Tuppence on the trail of the mysterious Mr. Brown. Many of the situations are a bit moth-eaten from frequent usage by other writers, but at that Miss Christie manages to invest them with a new sense of individuality that renders them rather absorbing. Robert Barnard described the novel as The first and best (no extravagant compliment this) of the Tommy and Tuppence stories. It tells how the dauntless pair foils a plot to foment labour unrest and red revolution in Britain, masterminded by the man behind the Bolshevists. Good reactionary fun, if youre in that mood. Its an excellent yarn and the reader will find it as impossible as we did to put it aside until the mystery has been fathomed. -- Daily Chronicle We promise our readers an exciting story of adventure, full of hairbreadth escapes, and many disappointments if they try to guess the riddle before the author is ready to give them the clue. -- An excellent story. -- Saturday Review. The atmosphere of the book is admirable and the story will be read with avidity by all. Undoubtedly the book is a success. -- East Anglian Daily Times. A book of thrilling adventure. Sensational adventures which make thrilling and gripping reading. Mrs Christie has certainly succeeded in writing a story not only entertaining, but ingenious and amazingly clever. -- Irish Independen...

-Titulo Original : Science Of Breath-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: A Complete Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development. Contents: Salaam; Breath is Life; Exoteric and Esoteric theory of breath; Nervous system; Nostril breathing vs. mouth breathing; Four methods of respiration; How to acquire the yogi complete breath; Physiological effect of the complete breath; A few bits of Yogi lore; Seven Yogi developing exercises; Seven minor Yogi exercises; Vibration and Yogi rhythmic breathing; Phenomena of yogi psychic breathing; Yogi spiritual breathing. A Biography of the Author...

-Titulo Original : The Wealth Of Nations-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the worlds first collected descriptions of what builds nations wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets...

-Titulo Original : Capital (vol I. A Critique Of Political Economy)-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: This volume (1867) is a critical analysis of the political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of Das Kapital was published on 14 September 1867, dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff and was the single volume published in Marxs lifetime...

-Titulo Original : The Souls Of Black Folk-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in the American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works in the field of sociology. In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois used the term double consciousness, perhaps taken from Emerson (The Transcendentalist and Fate), applying it to the idea that black people must have two fields of vision at all times. They must be conscious of how they view themselves, as well as being conscious of how the world views them. Each chapter in The Souls of Black Folk begins with a pair of epigraphs: text from a poem, usually by a European poet, and the musical score of a spiritual, which Du Bois describes in his foreword (The Forethought) as some echo of haunting melody from the only American music which welled up from black souls in the dark past. Columbia University English and comparative literature professor Brent Hayes Edwards writes: It is crucial to recognize that Du Bois ... chooses not to include the lyrics to the spirituals, which often serve to underline the arguments of the chapters: Booker T. Washingtons idealism is echoed in the otherworldly salvation hoped for in A Great Camp-Meeting in the Promised Land, for example; likewise the determined call for education in Of the Training of Black Men is matched by the strident words of March On. Edwards adds that Du Bois may have withheld the lyrics to mark a barrier for the reader, to suggest that black culture-life within the veil-remains inaccessible to white people. In The Forethought, Du Bois states: Leaving, then, the world of the white man, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses,-the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls. He concludes with the words: ...need I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the Veil...

-Titulo Original : The Prince-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavellis death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings. Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it is generally agreed that it was especially innovative. This is only partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dantes Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature...

-Titulo Original : The Clouds Of Witness-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: All families are different. This one just happens to be based on a little white lie. Henry Soles winding path to Nebraska started with his kidnapping. He was just a baby when he was taken from his parents. Growing up among a roaming, Midwest, Native American tribe, Mama was the only mother figure he had ever known. And he had no reason to suspect that anything was wrong. Until he became old enough to recognize that his white skin and the attention it drew meant he was different somehow. Eventually, Mama could lie to him no longer. And everything Henry had known to be the truth was shattered in an instant. Reeling from pain and confusion, and seeing no other reasonable option, the young man decided to head west. In search of his roots and of the family he lost. Little does he know, hes about to learn the greatest lesson there is: That its not important where you come from. But rather what you make of your life with what you have. Review A Winding Path to Flat Water is the best novel I have read in a good while. I have long been interested in the theme of Anglo children being raised as Native Americans from the time I read the first classic of that theme, The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter to the 2013 best-selling novel, The Son by Philipp Meyer. A Winding Path pursues that theme but so much more. I unreservedly recommend this book. -- David Komatz, M.A., M. Ed., Psy. D. Rob Soles has told an amazing and engaging story of perseverance, overcoming adversity, and hope. He has done so with a mesmerizing tale of how his great-grandfather made his way to Nebraska in the early days of western settlement. His depiction of the interaction between white settlers and the native tribes is thoughtful and mesmerizing and shows a more realistic and human relationship than is typically shown by the entertainment world or Hollywood. Rob writes with a beautifully depictive style that allows the reader to easily imagine what the characters are seeing, feeling, and experiencing. -- Barry L. Mark, Vice President, Design & Construction, WPS, Capital On...

-Titulo Original : Lolly Willowes: Or The Loving Huntsman-Fabricante : Ancient Wisdom Publications-Descripcion Original: It’s finally here! In this short and powerful book, network marketing experts Ray and Jessica Higdon teach you proven strategies for marketing and prospecting that allow you to navigate your way through the social media maze and achieve freakishly effective results for your business. Social media has been called the “gold rush” of the 21st Century-a new, unchartered world where people in virtually every industry have found fame and fortune. This includes Network Marketing. The trouble is, as with the gold rush of the mid-1800s, the wild west atmosphere has left a lot of network marketers feeling lost and confused. Worse still, the short-term tactics being used cause unintentional harm to the reputation of the network marketing profession. In this book you will learn what truly works when it comes to using social media in your network marketing business including: The types of social media posts you should be focusing on and the things you must avoid sharing What you should and should not include as part of your profile A four-step process for creating freakishly effective lives The right way to reach out to someone on social media and what to say How to follow up when people “disappear” What to do if you’ve been doing it all wrong! And so much more… If you are ready to use social media to build your network marketing business, and you want to do it the right way, this book is a must-read. Get it today...