Product Description: This classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O, the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit.It begins with nineteen-year-old Emmanuelle’s flight from London to join her husband in Bangkok...read more

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer

Collects nineteen short stories, the novel Pierre and Jean, and the novelette The Roque Girl in a selection that exhibits Maupassant's mastery of psychological realism. Reprint.

A man makes his daughter his mistress in Eugenie de Franval, a libertine corrupts an innocent girl in Miss Henrietta Stralson, and, in Florville and Courval, a man unwittingly marries his own daughter. Reissue.

Provides a series of games, puzzles, and exercises to revitalize and strengthen the memory, logic, attention span, and other mental powers to retard the aging process

Profiles the Russian author whose plays, novels, and memoirs depicted working-class life in the preand post-revolutionary eras, discussing his harsh life, exile, and mysterious death

A twelve-year-old girl attending a circus is caught in the bombing of Dresden and returns home to find her sister killed and her mother mad with grief, and must assume adult responsibility for her own and her mother's safety

Product Description: With splendid new translations, these four major works offer a superlative introduction to a great social philosopher whose ideas helped spark a revolution that has still not ended.   Can individual freedom and social stability be reconciled? What is the function of government? What are the benefits and liabilities of civilization? What is the original nature of man, and how can he most fully realize his potential?   These were the questions that Jean-Jacques Rousseau investigated in works that helped set the stage for the French Revolution and have since stood as eloquent expressions of revolutionary views, not only in politics but also in such areas as personal lifestyles and educational practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A biographical account of the professional ambition, military training, ideological fanaticism, rise to power, and career as head of the SS intelligence service of the man who oversaw Hitler's Final Solution