This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experime…
Shelve Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were …
Shelve So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach…
Shelve Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricaci…
Cuttlefish Bones, his epoch-making first book, completes the trio of books (with the previously published 'The Occasions' and 'The Storm and Other Things') that won Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) the Nob…
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories …
El trabajo que da título a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negación, y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raíz platónica, y la cristiana, naci…
È il primo libro di liriche di Giovanni Pascoli, pubblicato nel 1891 in 21 componimenti e cresciuto sino a 150. Il titolo, dedotto da Virgilio, indica l'intendimento del Pascoli di comporre piccole po…
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and t…
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First…
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, …
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war…
En Albertine desaparecida sexto y penultimo volumen de En busca del tiempo perdido Proust prosigue su detallada y obsesiva narracion de los delirios amorosos de la angustia del deseo y en especial de …
El duelo es una de las más fascinantes novelas cortas de Joseph Conrad. Con las guerras napoleónicas como fondo romántico de esta historia, se narra en ella la contienda entablada por dos oficiales de…
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings wi…
Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Jukes, is the perfect contrast as an imaginative man prone to speaking in figurative language. Though the…
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist pl…
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
