Is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu - "Master Sun" (Sunzi or Sun-tzu), the text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China's Seven Military Classics upon the collection's creation in 1080 by Emperor Shenzong of Song, and has long been the most influential strategy text in East Asia. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking,...

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March-detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

Is Emily Bronte's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell"; Bronte died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850."

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. In the 1872 sixth edition -On- was omitted, so the full title is The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. This edition is usually known as The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography by the English naturalist Charles Darwin. Darwin wrote the text, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, for his family. He states that he started writing it on about May 28, 1876 and had finished it by August 3. The text was published in 1887 (five years after Darwin's death) by John Murray as part of The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. The text printed in Life and Letters was edited by Darwin's son Francis Darwin, who removed several passages about Darwin's...

Este es probablemente el libro mas famoso de Stefan Zweig. En el lleva a su cima el arte de la miniatura historica y literaria. Muy variados son los acontecimientos que reune bajo el titulo de "Momentos estelares": el ocaso del imperio de Oriente, en el que la caida de Constantinopla a manos de los turcos en 1453 adquiere su signo mas visible; el nacimiento de "El Mesias" de Handel en 1741; la derrota de Napoleon en 1815; el indulto de Dostoievski momentos antes de su ejecucion en 1849; el viaje de Lenin hacia Rusia en 1917... Cada uno de estos momentos estelares-escribe Stefan Zweig con...

El asno de oro de Apuleyo (siglo II) esta considerada una de las grandes novelas de la literatura latina y una de las joyas de la literatura universal. Aunque el tema no es original, pues existia otra obra anterior titulada Lucio, el asno, Apuleyo da a su obra una nueva dimension tanto por su extension como por su tratamien to y enfoque. En ella se narran las aventuras de un joven que, por causa de un maleficio, es transformado en asno y sufre las brutalidades de sus diferentes amos, hasta que es liberado por la diosa Isis. El arte narrativo de su autor queda patente en el brillante dominio...

Tras el choque del transbordador Martinez con un vapor en la bahia de San Francisco el critico literario Humphrey Van Weyden sube a bordo de la fragata Fantasma, capitaneada por Lobo Larsen. Se le impide el regreso a la costa y se ve obligado a formar parte de la tripulacion del barco, que se dirige a cazar focas. Muy pronto Van Weyden descubre un mundo brutal en ese microcosmos en el que gobierna y domina Lobo Larsen. Un hombre dominado por los instintos animales mas brutales, que basa sus actos en el poder de la fuerza, para quien la vida de un semejante no tiene valor, pero que no obstante...

El coloquio de los perros (titulo por el que es mas conocida, aunque su titulo real es Novela, y coloquio, que paso entre Cipion y Berganza, perros del Hospital de la Resurreccion, que esta en la ciudad de Valladolid, fuera de la puerta del Campo, a quien comunmente llaman "Los perros de Mahudes") es una de las Novelas ejemplares de Miguel de Cervantes. La consideracion de esta pieza como una novela independiente dentro de las Novelas ejemplares es problematica, ya que el Coloquio es en realidad un texto de uno de los personajes de la novela anterior, El casamiento enganoso, da a leer a un...