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The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling`s philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the "Mowgli" stories. The tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets...

Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, "Leviathan" is an ambitious work of philosophy. Claiming that man`s essential nature is competitive and selfish, Thomas Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign - or "Leviathan" - to enforce peace and the law....

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare`s contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death....

This is an ideal Christmas present, to give or receive. It includes Dickens`s five most popular Christmas tales: The Chimes, The Haunted Man, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and `the greatest little book in the world`, A Christmas Carol. The texts are taken from the 1868 Charles Dickens Edition, corrected by the author himself....

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen`s plays includes A Doll`s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder....

Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together. Fiona is a young nurse, trying to make her family understand her...