Anna Ruggieri: 136 books

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League and the Athenian-led Delian League. Thucydides was an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general...

Of the nations which have contributed to the direct stream of civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia are at present believed to be the oldest. The chronological dispute as to the relative antiquity of the two countries is of minor importance; for while in Babylonia the historical material is almost entirely...

"Begun when she was just eleven years old, Love and Friendship is one of Jane Austen's stories that very few readers may have encountered before. Austen experts feel that this story was written, like many others, only for the pleasure of her family and friends. It is scribbled across three...

The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos...

Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for In Search of Lost Time, a seven volume novel published between 1913 and 1927. Proust is considered to be one of the most important authors of the 20th century.

The book introduces the study of socialism as a phenomenon and socialist movements in America during the nineteenth century.

The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince...

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated...

“Niente di più bello sull’educazione del bambino è mai stato scritto. Questo libro può essere considerato un perfetto classico. Indica la strada giusta, la guida per ogni genitore e dovrebbe trovare un posto in ogni casa dove c'è un bambino." Per avere successo nell’educazione dei bambini...

A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele, it concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of...

Nelle cronache di tutti i tempi e nelle tradizioni di qualsiasi popolo: civile, barbaro e selvaggio, si rilevano costantemente narrazioni di eventi strani, secondo i quali durante il periodo della crisi preagonica, o poco dopo avvenuta la morte, si estrinsecano sovente dei fenomeni fisici inesplorati,...

L'Odissea (in greco antico: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) è uno dei due grandi poemi epici greci attribuiti all'opera del poeta Omero. Narra delle vicende riguardanti l'eroe Odisseo (o Ulisse, con il nome latino), dopo la fine della Guerra di Troia, narrata nell'Iliade. Assieme a quest'ultima, rappresenta...

Se queste mie note vedranno un giorno la luce è perché io ebbi la precauzione di metterle in salvo prima che i tedeschi, con un basso tranello, si fossero impadroniti della mia persona. Non era nelle mie intenzioni – allorché redigevo questi frettolosi appunti – di darli alle stampe così come...

“The Bacchae” is a Euripides tragedy, written while the author was at the court of Archelao, king of Macedonia, between 407 and 406 BC Euripides died a few months after completing it. The work was represented in Athens a few years later, probably in 403 BC, under the direction of the son (or grandson)...