Critic Collection

Every novel Louisa May Alcott wrote about growing up — all eight, in one edition. Plus two critical essays that read them the way they deserve to be read. Louisa May Alcott published Little Women in 1868 under pressure: from her publisher, from her readers, from a market that wanted girls to behave. She spent the rest of her career writing around that pressure — eight novels, dozens of stories, a body of work that kept asking the same question in different ways: what does it cost a woman to become herself in a world designed to prevent it? This edition collects all eight novels and ...

Six novels. One life. The complete arc of the most beloved heroine in Canadian literature — from the red-haired girl who arrived uninvited at Green Gables to the woman who sent her sons to war. Lucy Maud Montgomery published Anne of Green Gables in 1908 after years of rejection. The manuscript had been turned down so many times she had put it away in a hat box. When it finally appeared, it sold out within months and made her famous overnight. She spent the rest of her life writing sequels she hadn't planned, living a life considerably less free than the one she had imagined for Anne. Anne...

Every Sherlock Holmes story ever written — in one volume. This edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brings together all four novels and all fifty-six short stories in a single, carefully organized collection. From the first meeting at Bart's Hospital in A Study in Scarlet to the final bow in Shoscombe Old Place, every case, every deduction, every fog-drenched London street is here — the complete Sherlock Holmes series as Conan Doyle wrote it. But this is not just another reprint. WHAT MAKES THIS EDITION DIFFERENT Each of the nine books in the Sherlock Holmes...

The first novel in the English language — complete, unabridged, with two critical essays and a biographical afterword. In 1719, a bankrupt merchant, political spy, and Dissenting pamphleteer named Daniel Defoe published a book that would change the course of Western literature. Robinson Crusoe was not merely an adventure story. It was the invention of a new way of writing about human consciousness — and, as generations of readers and thinkers from Rousseau to Marx to Coetzee have recognized, a founding myth of the modern world. Crusoe is shipwrecked. Alone on an island for twenty-eight ...

Whether you’re battling procrastination, struggling with self-confidence, or trying to build habits that stick, this two-in-one collection will help you take control and create real, lasting change.

The complete Oz — all fourteen novels by L. Frank Baum in one volume, with a critical essay you will not find in any other edition Edited with a critical essay by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. In 1900, L. Frank Baum created something unprecedented: an American fairy tale. Not an imitation of Grimm or Andersen, but something native to the prairies, the dust, the vast democratic optimism of a country that believed it was inventing the future. A girl from Kansas is carried by a tornado to a land where scarecrows ...

Four novels. One writer. The invention of American longing. Edited with afterwords by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. This volume brings together every novel F. Scott Fitzgerald completed — the full arc of a writer who captured the sound of an entire civilization racing toward its own destruction: ✦ This Side of Paradise (1920) — The book that made Fitzgerald famous at twenty-three and invented the voice of a generation that did not yet know it was lost ✦ The Beautiful and Damned (1922) — A merciless ...

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places." It is the novel that made Ernest Hemingway the defining voice of his generation — and one of the greatest love stories, and war stories, ever written. On the Italian front in the First World War, Frederic Henry, a young American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, meets Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. What begins almost as a game becomes the one true thing in a world that is coming apart. Around them the war grinds on toward catastrophe — the disastrous retreat from Caporetto, the rain,...

The four novels that gave American literature its voice — and two essays that explain why one of them changed everything. Mark Twain invented American literature twice. The first time was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876 — a boy's world of summer, caves, and the Mississippi River, told with the warmth of a man who remembered childhood as a country you could never return to. The second time was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, where the same river becomes a moving argument about freedom, race, and the cost of conscience. Hemingway said all modern American literature comes from...

Traga a descrição no chat, já formatada com negritos e itálicos. 13:25 The complete text of both Alice novels — unabridged, carefully formatted, and followed by three critical essays that transform a childhood favorite into a book you'll never read the same way again. Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. Together, they've been translated into 174 languages, quoted in Supreme Court rulings, adopted by the Surrealists as secret scripture, and used in every logic textbook written since. They remain two of the strangest, ...

The most beloved American novel of boyhood — complete, annotated, and freshly typeset. Before Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain wrote Tom Sawyer. Before he gave America its greatest novel, he gave America its most enduring boy. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is the book that established Twain as the defining voice of American literature — funny, irreverent, sharply observant, and quietly subversive beneath its sunlit Missouri surface. In the river town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime before the Civil War, a boy named Tom Sawyer is in trouble again. He has skipped school. He has ...

The detective who solved crimes not by reading clues but by reading souls. The most radical inversion of Sherlock Holmes ever written — and, a century later, still the strangest and most morally serious detective fiction in the English language. This Erato Press critical edition brings together four complete Father Brown collections with a critical essay that examines what Chesterton was actually doing: smuggling theology into the detective story and making it work. In 1910, G. K. Chesterton introduced a small, round-faced Catholic priest who carried a shabby umbrella and solved crimes by...

Meet the gentleman-burglar who out-thinks every detective alive — and once humiliated Sherlock Holmes himself. Six classic adventures of Arsène Lupin, the most charming criminal in literature, gathered in a single annotated volume. Before there was a master thief in any heist film, there was Arsène Lupin: thief, escape artist, master of disguise, and France's national hero. Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) created him as the laughing mirror-image of Sherlock Holmes — and when Leblanc set the two against each other, Conan Doyle's lawyers objected, so Lupin's rival became the thinly veiled...

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions.

#1 New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for the Netflix series streaming now! “A revealing look at life inside the White House. . . it’s Downton Abbey for the White House staff.”— The Today Show A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The...

Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio. Ignition!...

Politicians have failed us. But democracy doesn’t have to. Bought by special interests, detached from real life, obsessed with reelection. Politicians make big promises, deliver little to nothing, and keep the game rigged in their favor. But what can we do? In Politics Without Politicians...

Over 3,500 carefully selected quotations – real pearls of critical human thought – are logically ordered, within each of 260 topical sections, to form a quasi-continuous narrative “thread”, which reads as a virtual discussion of the topic by the wise and the witty. For this third edition, the collection underwent a thorough review. Besides that, the keystone quotes recalled most often are now typeset in boldface, and the narrative’s twists and turns within some longer threads are marked with three-asterisk lines. The book's PDF is available for download from https://...

The first social-protest novel in the English language. Dickens at twenty-five, writing the book that made him impossible to ignore. In 1837 a young parliamentary reporter began publishing, in monthly instalments, the story of a workhouse orphan who walks ninety miles from a country poorhouse to the slums of London. The Poor Law of 1834 had recently codified into policy the conviction that poverty was a moral failing best disciplined by hunger; Oliver Twist answered that policy with a child, a name, and the most famous request in English fiction: "Please, sir, I want some more." It made ...

David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first...