Masterpieces of World Literature




BIOGRAPHIES of Writers and Philosophers

TEXTS

MASTERPIECES (editor Frank N. Magill)

ILLUSTRATIONS



Dictionary of Writers and Philosophers



 

LIBRARY OF CLASSIC LITERATURE (texts in English)
 

ABELARD PETER "The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise"
AKHMATOVA ANNA "Requiem"
ANDERSEN  HANS CHRISTIAN "The Fairy Tales"
APOLLONIUS OF RHODES "Argonautica", "Jason and the Golden Fleece"
"The Arabian Nights"
ARETINO PIETRO "Dialogues", "Sonetti lussuriosi"
ARIOSTO  LUDOVICO "Orlando Enraged" canto 1-4
ARISTOPHANES "Lysistrata"
ARISTOTLE "Poetics"
AUGUSTINE SAINT "Confessions"
AUSTEN  JANE "Pride and Prejudice"
BACON FRANCIS "New Atlantis"
BASHO MATSUO "Basho's Haiku"
BASILE GIAMBATTISTA "Stories from Il Pentamerone"
BAUDELAIRE  CHARLES "The Flowers of Evil"
"Beowulf"
BLAKE  WILLIAM "Songs of Innocence", "Songs of Experience"
BOCCACCIO  GIOVANNI "The Decameron"
BROWNING  ELIZABETH "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
"Bulfinch's Mythology"
BULGAKOV MIHAIL "The Master and Margarita"
BUNYAN  JOHN "The Pilgrim’s Progress "
BYRON  GEORGE "Don Juan"
CARROLL  LEWIS "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There"
"The Lay of the Cid"
CLELAND JOHN "Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"
COLERIDGE  SAMUEL "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
CONAN-DOYLE "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
DANTE ALIGHIERI "The Divine Comedy"
DEFOE  DANIEL "Robinson Crusoe"
DE SADE "Justine"
DONNE  JOHN "Songs and Sonnets", "Elegies"
"The Poetic Edda"
ELIOT T. S. "The Waste Land"
EMERSON RALPH "Nature"
EURIPIDES "Electra", "Medea"
"Everyman"
FREUD  SIGMUND "The Interpretation of Dreams"
"The Epic of Gilgamesh"
GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG "Faust"
GRIMM BROTHERS "Grimms Fairy Tales"
HAMILTON EDITH "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes"
HESIOD "Works And Days"
HOMER "Iliad", "Odyssey"
HORACE "Ars Poetica"
HUME DAVID "The Natural History of Religion"
"Jason and the Golden Fleece"
JONSON BEN "Volpone"
JUVENAL "Satires"
"Kama Sutra"
KEATS JOHN "The Eve of St. Agnes"
KNOWLES JAMES "The Legends of King Arthur and his Kmights"
LONGFELLOW HENRY "The Song of Hiawatha"
LONGUS "Daphnis and Chloe"
MACHIAVELLI NICCOLO "The Prince"
MALORY THOMAS "King Arthur and of his Noble Knights"
MILTON JOHN "Paradise Lost"
MONTAIGNE MICHEL "The Essays"
MORE THOMAS "Utopia"
MURASAKI SHIKIBU "The Tale of Genji"
"The Nibelungenlied"
NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
ORWELL GEORGE "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
OVID "Metamorphoses"
PERRAULT CHARLES "The Tales of Mother Goose"
PETRARCH "Song Book"
PETRONIUS "Satyricon"
PLUTARCH "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans"
ÐÎÅ EDGAR "Ligea", "The Raven"
POPE ALEXANDER "The Rape of the Lock"
PREVOST ABBE "Manon Lescaut"
PUSHKIN ALEXANDER "Eugene Onegin", "The Bronze Horseman"
"The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood"
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM "Sonnets"
SHELLEY MARY "Frankenstein"
SHELLEY PERCY "Prometheus Unbound"
SOLOMON "Song of Songs"
"Song of Roland"
SOPHOCLES "Antigone"
STOKER  BRAM "Dracula"
SWIFT JONATHAN "Gulliver's Travels"
TASSO TORQUATO  "Jerusalem Delivered"
TENNYSON ALFRED "Idylls of the King"
VERGIL "The Aeneid"
VOLTAIRE "Candide", "Age of Louis XIV"
ZARATHUSTRA "Zoroaster Hymns of the Zend Avesta"

EXPLORATIONS AND MONOGRAPHS

Revelations. Art of the Apocalypse (by Nancy Grubb)
Gothic Era ("Painting of the Gothic Era" by R. Suckale, M. Weniger)
Albrecht Durer ("Durer" by Wolfram Prinz)
Sandro Botticelli "Visual Poetry"
Leonardo da Vinci ("The Genius of the Renaissance" by J. Gilbert)
Hieronymus Bosch ("Between Heaven and Hell" by W. Bosing)
Hieronymus Bosch ("The Life and works of H. Bosch" by T. Copplestone)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Peasants, Fools and Demons" by R-M. and R.Hagen)
Arcimboldo ("Giuseppe Arcimboldo" by Werner Kriegeskorte)
Giorgio Vasari "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" (selections)
Rembrandt ("The Mustery of the Revealed Form" by M. Bockemuhl)
Vermeer ("Veiled Emotions" by Norbert Schneider)
Velazquez ("The Face of Spain" by Norbert Wolf)
The Art of the Portrait ("Masterpieces of European Portrait " by N. Schneider)
Indian Court Painting ("Indian Court Painting" by S.Kossak)
Japanese Ukiyo-e ("Ukiyo-e. Origins and History" by M. Sato)
Francisco de Goya ("Life and Work" by E. L. Buchholz)
Romantic Era ("Painting of the Romantic Era"  by Norbert Wolf)
Vincent van Gogh ("Fields and Flowers" by Debra N. Mancoff)
The Chronicle of Impressionism (by Bernard Denvir)
Henri Rousseau  (by Cornelia Stabenow)
Matisse ("Cut-Outs" by Gilles Neret)
Gustav Klimt (by Gilles Neret)
Alphonse Mucha  ("Master of Art Nouveau" by Renate Ulmer)
Naive Art (by Natalia Brodskaia)
Grandma Moses (by Jane Kallir)
Edvard Munch (by Jean Selz)
Amedeo Modigliani ("The Poetry of Seeing" by Doris Krystof)
Francis Bacon ("The Theater of the Body" by Jose Maria Faerna)
Pablo Picasso (by Carsten-Peter Warncke)
Diego Rivera ("A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art" by A.Kettenmann)
Marc Chagall ("Painting as Poetry" by Ingo F.Walther, Rainer Metzger)
Marc Chagall (Marc Chagall "Tapestries" by Jacob Baal-Teshuna)
Surrealist Art (by Sarane Alexandrian)
Salvador Dali (by Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret)
Rene Magritte ("Thought rendered visible" by Marcel Paquet)
Surrealism ("The Dream of Revolution" by Richard Leslie)
Paintings that Changed the World. FROM LASCAUX TO WARHOL (by K. Reichold, B. Graf)
Modern Art. FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-MODERNISM. (Edited by David Britt)
Abstract Art. PICTURES OF NOTHING (by Kirk Varnedoe)
Graphic Design a new History (by Stephen J. Eskilson)
History of Posters (by John Barnicoat)
A World History of Photography (by Naomi Rosenblum)
The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991 (by Hans-Michael Koetzle)
Classical Music  (by John Stanley)
History of Western Literature (based on Hamlyn History Literature (by Neil Grant)
Masterpieces of World Literature (Edited by Frank N. Magill)
Dreamland Japan. Writings on Modern Manga (by Frederik L. Schodt)
Alchemy & Mysticism. The Hermetic Cabinet (by Alexander Roob)
Tarot. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (by Arthur Edward Waite)
Dictionary of Art and Artists (based on "The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists")
Visual History of the World (Foreword by Douglas G. Brinkley)

SEE ALSO  EXPLORATION (in Russian):

THE SECRETS OF THE CRAFT - Homer  "Iliad "and "Odyssey" - Aleksandr Pushkin "Yevgeny Onegin" - Osip Mandelshtam - Marina Tsvetaeva - Anna Achmatova - Joseph Brodsky